Did you know some of the Ukrainians aided the Nazis 80 years ago? Did you know some Ukrainians are racists and still have the gall to fight the invaders? Let's say you don't find the entire weight of human history persuasive, that's still no reason to protect allies from enemies, flawed democracies from vicious strongmen.Īfter all, the United States owes Ukraine nothing, they say. Hey! Why not put them on the Security Council?
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No score to settle with NATO.Īnd having learned there are no consequences for conquest, they say, surely China would immediately allow Taiwan full autonomy and a seat at the United Nations. (With apologies to Godwin.)Īppeasement, they say, is most definitely the way to go.Īnd even if Russia is slightly, perhaps even a bitsy encouraged by the world allowing it to keep its prizes, surely that's OK? Surely, Russia has no designs on other parts of the former Soviet Union. The United States would happily have kept all its treaties with the Indians, if the United States existed, but it didn't and doesn't because the British and Dutch had no interest in empire.Ĭloser to the present day, Adolf Hitler and his merry band of Nazis wanted just a tiny bite of the Sudetenland and then back to Berlin for strudel. The British knocked politely on India's door, were told the Moghul emperor was not available, turned around, hopped onto their ships, and left. Alexander, who famously called for peace with the Persians and stayed home. The Persians who were such homebodies that Persepolis was paved solely in mud, no hint of greatness to be found among ruins of clay. The Assyrians, who never left Nineveh without an invitation. Ed Ram/Getty ImagesĪgain, and again, that lesson rings down through the ages. Children look at an exhibition of tanks and military equipment on display next to St.
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