Washington Post headline: “Biden says ground troops ‘not on the table’ but Putin would face ‘severe’ economic sanctions for Ukraine invasion”
Vladimir Putin is taking a page from the 1938 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Adolph Hitler gave a speech in Berlin on 26 September 1938 and declared that the Sudetenland (part of was Czechoslovakia) “the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe”. He also stated that he had “assured” UK Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain “that, and this I repeat here before you, once this issue has been resolved, there will no longer be any further territorial problems for Germany in Europe!” That led to the Munich Agreement and UK Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain’s speech declaring “Peace_for our_time.” World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3.
American president Joe Biden said the United States will deter Russia if it invades Ukraine using sanctions. What possible sanctions can stop Russia from invading and taking control of Ukraine? The sanctions imposed by the United States in 2014 had no effect on Russia’s occupation of Crimea.
Have sanctions deterred Iran in its efforts to develop nuclear weapons? For that matter has North Korea changed its behavior? And of course there is Cuba that has endured US trade and travel embargo for more than five decades and none of Washington’s policy objectives have been achieved.
It appears the President of the United States is walking in the path of Chamberlain.
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