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Putin’s attack on Ukraine echoes Hitler’s takeover of Czechoslovakia
By Michael E. Ruane
February 24, 2022 at 1:15 p.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/24/hitler-czechoslovakia-sudeten-putin-ukraine/

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"By 1939, parts of Czechoslovakia had already been carved off and taken over by Nazi Germany, which claimed that millions of ethnic Germans were being persecuted there.

The previous September, European powers, seeking to avoid war, had acquiesced and done nothing.

But six months later, German troops were massed on the Czech border, as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler railed and threatened the country with destruction.

On March 15, 1939, the sickly Czech president, Emil Hacha, was in Hitler’s study surrounded by the Führer’s henchmen.

“Hitler was at his most intimidating,” historian Ian Kershaw wrote in his 2000 biography of the Nazi leader. “He launched into a violent tirade against the Czechs.” The Nazis needed to take over Czechoslovakia to protect Germany. Hacha must agree or his country would be immediately attacked and Prague, its capital, bombed.

Hacha fainted, according to Kershaw, but was revived and gave in to Hitler’s demand. German troops marched in a few hours later. Hitler said it was the happiest day of his life.

Russia’s Vladimir Putin did not bother to speak with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, before launching his assault Thursday. But some observers see brutal similarities to Hitler’s seizure of Czechoslovakia just before World War II.

“This is all truly dictated by our national interests and dictated by care for the future of our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday after the Russian assault began.

Putin on Monday claimed pro-Russian residents of Ukraine faced “genocide.”"

 

J.D. Vance comment:


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“The Russia-Ukraine border dispute has nothing to do with our national security,” Vance wrote of the crisis. “No American interest is served by our intervention,” he continued. “The obsession with Ukraine from our idiot leaders serves no function except to distract us from our actual problems.”"

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/24/hitler-czechoslovakia-sudeten-putin-ukraine/

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"In March 1938, during the run-up to World War II, Hitler had first engineered the Nazi takeover of Austria, which already had strong pro-Nazi sympathies.

Seven months later, he was plotting the seizure of part of Czechoslovakia, claiming that ethnic Germans in the Sudeten regions bordering eastern Germany were being mistreated.

“I must also declare before the German people that in the Sudeten German problem my patience is now at an end,” Hitler said on Sept. 26, 1938. Czechoslovakia must “give the Germans their freedom, or we will get this freedom for ourselves.”

Four days later, during the famous Munich conference — now known as the centerpiece of the “appeasement” of the Nazis — Great Britain, France and Italy agreed to the handover of the Sudeten region to Germany, hoping it would prevent further aggression.

“It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe,” Hitler said. Within six months, he took the rest of Czechoslovakia, and on Sept. 1, 1939, he attacked Poland, starting World War II."

 

J.D. Vance is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, along with Gibbons and Mandel who looked like they were going to have a fist fight during a GOP primary debate.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/24/hitler-czechoslovakia-sudeten-putin-ukraine/

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“So it’s the same playbook,” Zakheim said. “When [Hitler] bit off the Sudetenland, his argument was: ‘These people don’t want to be part of Czechoslovakia. They’re Germans.’ Putin’s saying the same thing about these people in Donetsk and Luhansk: ‘They don’t want to be part of Ukraine. They’re Russians.’ Same exact argument.”

With Thursday’s attack, “he’s expanding it,” Zakheim said. And the example of the late 1930s hints at how far that expansion could go.

“Hitler wanted to take over all of Europe,” Zakheim said. “Putin … wants to restore Czarist Russia, the Russian empire. It’s a threat in particular to Finland, which was part of the Russian empire, to the Baltic states, which were part of the Russian empire, and to Poland, which was part of the Russian empire.”

 

Putin wants Ukraine to go far beyond an agreement or a treaty. He said wants Ukraine to change its constitution to incorporate his list of demands.

 

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article259268834.html

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"In Tarrant County alone, 815 ballots were rejected over the ID rule — three in the Republican primary and 812 in the Democratic primary. Those interviewed for this story said they could not provide a definitive reason for the discrepancy between the parties.

In Texas, nearly 23,000 ballots, — 13% — were rejected for reasons that include the ID requirement, according to an analysis by the Associated Press of 187 counties in the state."

 

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article259268834.html

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"“This is happening to average, ordinary people,” said Carolyn Shannon, a Tarrant County voter. “I mean, I’m not anybody important. I’m just a voter, and I think it’s important that I be able to continue to do that.”

The 69-year-old Hurst resident has never had issues voting by mail before, but this year was different.

Shannon, who is visually impaired, filled out her ballot and sent it in as she usually does, but didn’t notice a place on the envelope for her to include identification information.

Less than a week before Election Day, Shannon said she received a phone call informing her of a ballot error. She was told to go to the election clerk, void her mail-in ballot and vote in person.

The task felt insurmountable. Shannon was confident she wouldn’t be able to vote. She needed transportation to the polls and spent two days trying to figure out how to get there.

“I was just in shock, and I didn’t know what to do,” she said.

Shannon is one example of hundreds voters who struggled with the new ID rule.

“It’s just wrong,” Shannon said. “The right to vote is a right that we have in this country.”

Ultimately, her vote wasn’t counted. She got a ride to the polls, but according to the elections office, her provisional ballot cast during the primary was rejected for lack of voter ID."

 

I could provide a definitive reason... Voter suppression.

 

Maybe if Texass spent more time suppressing fires instead of suppressing the vote, this wouldn’t happen.
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I'm sure this is somehow Biden's fault...

 

I hope Texass doesn’t ask the feds for help.

 

Don't worry... They will.

 

Trump doesn't know what he would do with his buddy Putin and his war in Ukraine after accusing Biden of being weak.


Fox Host Exasperated After Repeatedly Asking Trump What More He Would Do to Support Ukraine

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"“Well let me press you again on what extra military help you would give to the Ukrainians,” Varney said. “You say you want to do more than just the MiG jets or the Javelins. What more?”

Trump replied that “drones are just as effective as anything now,” and again condemned the war.

The Biden administration is also providing Ukraine with drones."

 

He’s showing just how clueless he is- as usual.

 

Abbott is jumping up and down with joy.

Tarrant is a county whose demographics have been shifting toward Democrats.

Biden won Tarrant in 2020, the first time a Democrat has won it in a presidential election since Johnson.


President-elect Joe Biden wins Tarrant County in final vote tally

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"While President Donald Trump has secured his victory statewide in Texas, historically deep-red Tarrant County started turning heads last week after President-elect Joe Biden took a 427-vote lead in the county that the incumbent won by over 57,000 votes four years ago."

 

Voter suppression is working as intended. Republicans can't win without lying and cheating, so that's what they do.

 

An armed group of Trump supporters who are led by a man named Smith, who is connected to Steve Bannon and Mike Pillow Fucker Lindell, are going around to interview people who live in minority areas. You know what that means: They are going around to intimidate Spanish speaking and Black voters. Colorado has a make my day law. Maybe some colored man might get enough of their shit and blast away through the screen door with a 12 GA shotgun?

 

Article from September 2021.


Gov. Greg Abbott signs Texas voting bill into law, overcoming Democratic quorum breaks

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"While SB 1 makes some changes that could expand access — namely increasing early voting hours in smaller, mostly Republican counties — the new law otherwise restricts how and when voters cast ballots. It specifically targets voting initiatives used by diverse, Democratic Harris County, the state’s most populous, by banning overnight early voting hours and drive-thru voting — both of which proved popular among voters of color last year.

The new law also will ratchet up voting-by-mail rules in a state where the option is already significantly limited, give partisan poll watchers increased autonomy inside polling places by granting them free movement, and set new rules — and criminal penalties — for voter assistance. It also makes it a state jail felony for local election officials to proactively distribute applications for mail-in ballots, even if they are providing them to voters who automatically qualify to vote by mail or groups helping get out the vote.

“One thing that all Texans can agree [on] and that is that we must have trust and confidence in our elections. The bill that I’m about to sign helps to achieve that goal,” Abbott said before signing the bill. “The law does, however, make it harder for fraudulent votes to be cast.”"