Yes, indeed, “Why Die for Dantzig” was a rallying cry for French appeasement in 1939. But I’m not sure I can disagree if it is rephrased to say “Why Die for the Crimea?”.
Why Die for the Rhineland.
This was Putin’s equivalent to marching into the Rhineland.
Had Hitler stopped there, nobody would have cared.....Will Putin stop in Crimea, that remains to be seen.