[Colonel Kangaroo]

The real lesson of Neville Chamberlain is not from Munich but from a half year later when he reversed course and foolishly committed his nation to the defense of Eastern Europe. We too have no business arrogantly meddling in affairs that don’t concern us. We have as much business in the Ukraine as Russia does in Mexico.

[SoCal Pubbie]

You can't possibly be serious. You're not really suggesting that Britain and France should not have opposed Hitler when it became apparent that his intentions were to control all of Europe under an iron fist of fascist domination.

The mistakes were made in 1936, when those two nations could have stopped Hitler at absolutely no cost save the expense of fuel to move a few divisions eastward into the Rhineland.

Regardless of the best path to take relative to Russia and Ukraine today, your post was one of the most preposterous ever written on Free Republic.

[Corporate Democrat]

This is just like how the Sudetenland, Austria and a good chuck of Western Poland deserved to be part of Germany too. Heck, the only reason appeasement didn't work was because they ended up declaring war, not realizing Hitler was just defending German majority areas in Poland from discrimination. Right? Right?

Being the primary homeland of a particular ethnic group does not give you carte blanche to invade and occupy territories where your ethnicity is the majority.