[komali2]

Fascist states get at least one free pass. For Germany it was Poland, for the USA I believe they're deciding between Venezuela and Greenland. Personally I think the better bet is Greenland because they can probably get Venezuela for free after since nobody cares about Venezuela. A "two in one deal" if you will, perhaps one of America's greatest inventions.

Edit: I meant to write Austria but am so used to writing "German invasion of Poland" that that's what came out of the thumbs

[SirWalross]

Poland was hardly a free pass. The Sudetenland was the free pass.

[LexiMax]

I'd hardly call any of Germany's prewar annexations free.

It was clear very early on that Germany was being led by a violent bully, so past a certain point appeasement wasn't a blank check, but was instead intended to buy time to spin up war industries.

[wongarsu]

The Greenland situation is more like Germany annexing the Sudetenland (the border regions of Czechoslovakia) in 1938. And after that Hitler got his homeland Austria as another freebie. That's stretching the analogy a bit, but Venezuela might be Trump's Austria. His Poland would be something like Canada