The parallels between today and September 1939, when Hitler’s German legions smashed into Poland to ignite Europe in the Second World War, are uncanny. It certainly makes 2022 the most dangerous year in Europe since the end of that terrible, bloody war in 1945. What the West does now will have dramatic consequences for the future of the world as we know it. If the world allows Putin to get away with his latest land-grab (he has form in this area, seizing the Crimea from Ukraine and helping so-called ‘separatists’ take over the Donbas region in 2014) there’s a very good chance he’ll take this as carte blanche to do it again, elsewhere.
The targets? The Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) will be first on his hit list, even though they are members of NATO. As I explained in my book The Rise of the Third Reich, this is what Hitler did after 1938; take little nibbles at bits of Europe that weren’t his and if people didn’t make too much of a fuss, keep on nibbling.
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