[TheRealThing]

Events in Europe during the build up to WW2, are chillingly similar to events unfolding in Europe in present day. Like Hitler's assault on Poland, Putin has claimed the high ground for his lawless annexation of the Crimea and the predicted invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Claiming that he's being forced to protect Russian citizens who have become threatened by that country. It's a lie of course, just as Hitler lied. Any trouble in the Ukraine has come at Putin's own hand, in that it is he who has sent in dissidents to create trouble, so that the Russian invasion would have the appearance of plausibility.

As in the days prior to WW2, the US is in one of her isolationist moods. Liberals in control of the Senate, congress' most powerful institution, insist that Europe should handle her own problems. So we retreat to stand behind the "global community", as we did when Assad crossed Obama's "Red Line". We seem equally content to watch while Iran gets the bomb, and it would appear Putin can do anything he darn well pleases. Foreign policy experts, (the real ones, not the Ivy League pin heads in charge these days), have been screaming their heads off since Obama first announced that the US would be pulling her horns in during his tenure. Why? Because they knew the bad guys would move into the power vacuum created by our sudden lack of commitment. They were right by the way.

As in Hitler's day, Ukrainian Jews are being told they must register with the interim pro Russian government, identifying family and property. In a word, EERIE. Putin's Russia, like Hitler's Germany, is presently inundated in an up swelling of nationalistic pride. And, just as in Hitler's day, a charismatic leader has emerged to lead Russia back to her glory days. Now, not that Mom Jeans aren't scary but, it would take some insightful leadership to withstand the self inflated bravado which fuels all this Russian muscle flexing going on.

Unlike Hitler's day however, this line up of bad guys could be much worse than the one two three punch of Germany, Japan and Italy, potent though it was. Imagine a conflict involving a alliance of the Arab World headed up by a nuclear Iran, Russia, Red China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and who knows who else? There is a reason I list Iran and North Korea among the list of notables. They would never have the courage to take us on by themselves but, with the 'bigs' mentioned above leading the way, they would be glad to join in on the dog pile.

Whether on the school ground, or on the world stage, a bully met with force will back up. However, a bully met with appeasement, will never stop pushing. Therefore, all this talk about a war weary American citizenry is a total load of baloney. We have made the eventual outcome much worse than it would have otherwise been by pulling in our horns. We have encouraged and emboldened our foes. And, at the same time unbelievably, we voluntarily weakened our own armed services. We have cut the size of our Army, mothballed the navy, ended the F22 and curtailed the F35. We have retired and given away tanks, trucks and military hardware as if it was infected by the black plague. Saying that NATO must step up and defend their own turf, and that we cannot be the world police. Not to mention the fact that our President recently felt compelled to open the strategic oil reserve to artificially bend down the cost curve for domestic oil and gasoline. Knowing all the while, that our enemies threaten to shut down the strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal for that matter, both critical legs of the oil trade routes. But, not to worry, to balance the threatened loss of critical oil for which our defense is so reliant, we have decided not to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. :HitWall:

The USA may be going the way of the dodo, but, we can't have any other animal form under threat, now can we?