Posted by
The Chopping Block on Monday, August 11, 2008 1:35:00 PM
Too many parallels to list here, but take Russia's poor economy, blame that poor economy on the West's winning of the cold war and the dissolution of the USSR, add the shallow pretense of Russian nationals living in Georgia and you see 1939 all over again.
So, who will be the big appeaser that gets their name in history...you know, the one that will go to Russia and get Putin's solemn promise that they only want to annex northern Ossetia and agree that it is ok.
(However, for the first time in my adult life, I have a stronger sense of how the world felt in 1938 when it gave the Sudetenland to Germany. Hindsight is 20-20 and we all look back and say how stupid the world was. But as Russia enters Georgia, I can see where everyone is hesitant to fall into place for Georgia and go to war to stop Russia. Hell, the president is enjoying the olympics so why disturb him)