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Zitat von keko#

Wo genau siehst du denn die Parallelen zu den 1940er Jahren und jetzt, dass du diesen Vergleich ziehst? Dass noch immer weltweit mörderische Kriege geführt werden, wissen wir ja nicht erst seit letzter Woche.

That’s why I reached out to Fiona Hill:
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Hill: We first have to think about what Vladimir Putin has done and the nature of what we’re facing. People don’t want to talk about Adolf Hitler and World War II, but I’m going to talk about it. (...) But let’s focus here on the territorial expansionism of Germany, what Germany did under Hitler in that period: seizure of the Sudetenland and the Anschluss or annexation of Austria, all on the basis that they were German speakers. (...) Germany eventually engaged in a burst of massive territorial expansion and occupation.

Reynolds: So, similar to Hitler, he’s using a sense of massive historical grievance combined with a veneer of protecting Russians and a dismissal of the rights of minorities and other nations to have independent countries in order to fuel territorial ambitions?

Hill: Correct. And he’s blaming others, for why this has happened, and getting us to blame ourselves. If people look back to the history of World War II, there were an awful lot of people around Europe who became Nazi German sympathizers before the invasion of Poland. In the United Kingdom, there was a whole host of British politicians who admired Hitler’s strength and his power, for doing what Great Powers do, before the horrors of the Blitz and the Holocaust finally penetrated.

Politco

Das Interview ist natürlich etwas durch die amerikanische Brille, aber trotzdem ganz interessant zu lesen.