[csours]

When did WWII start? It depends on where you lived.

In 2014 they had a fig leaf of not using uniformed Russian military. It was a transparent fig leaf, but we all need our fictions to get through the day.

[MomoXenosaga]

Yeah Crimea invasion was basically Sudetenland.

Nobody really thought Putin would become completely unhinged.

[stevehawk]

Nobody thought Kiev would last past the first 48 hours, least of all Putin.

[oblio]

I didn't believe it at first. I didn't even believe it about 1 week later.

Yet I definitely expected the follow up to be crap for Russia when Zelensky said he's not leaving Kiev and he needs ammo, not a ride.

[xenonite]

Could you elaborate your analogy?

[oblio]

Crimea - Sudetenland (Munich Agreement 1938)

Ukraine 2022 - Poland 1939