The main stream media has become a barren desert of propaganda, fear mongering and saber rattling. It is hard to find in the main stream media an oasis of intelligent analysis. Responsible journalists have mostly been sidelined. The main stream media has a lot to answer for in this war.
Those that keep screaming "Hitler" have forgotten the real lessons of WW2. All they remember is that appeasement of Hitler lead to more aggression. They have forgotten about WW1, the consequences of that peace and what lead to the rise of Hitler.
The Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1 laid the seeds for WW2. The treaty made a pariah out of Germany, isolated it and caused financial ruin and suffering for the German people. The U.S. refused to work with an international organization by not ratifying the League of Nations that could have kept the peace. Those should have been the lessons learned from WW2, too.
Another lesson not learned from WW2 is that economic sanctions are financial warfare that can back an adversary's into a corner. Such was the case with Japan in 1941. The U.S. embargoed Japan's oil imports. Japan responded by attacking Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. is now leading the charge to turn Russia into a pariah state, just like the Allies did to Germany after WW1. The U.S. is trying to isolate Russia from Europe, just like the Allies isolated Germany after WW1. The attack on the Ruble is causing financially ruin and suffering for the Russian people, just like the Allies did to the German people after WW1.
The U.S. has sidelined the United Nations, just like it did the League of Nations after WW1. The U.S. has wallowed in triumphalism and looted Russia after the Cold War, just like the Allies did after the defeat of Germany after WW1.
Economic sanctions against Russia are not unlike the embargo against Japan before WW2. The main stream media is a bullhorn for war, just like they have been for every war.
Obama says that he is trying to "change the behavior" of Putin as if Putin is a small child. The one being childish is the U.S. living in a fantasy world of thinking it is exceptional. The one being childish is the U.S. that cries "Hitler" every time it does not get its way. Those that are being childish are those that refuse to learn from history and are calling people names.
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