A number of dishonest and/or misguided people have claimed that the land-for-peace deal being forced on Ukraine by Trump and Putin is nothing at all like the appeasement of Hitler by allowing him to occupy the Sudetenland in 1938.
They also claim that giving Putin exactly what he wants definitely won’t encourage him use force to take other territory he wants in future.
“Just look at what happened back then,” said Steve Putz of the Centre for Culpable Gullibility. “Hitler said thanks very much for the Sudetenland, and then left the rest of the world in peace, just as he’d promised.
”And I’m sure exactly the same will happen with Putin. You only have to look at how we let him get away with annexing the Crimea in 2014, and he then came back and invaded more of Ukraine a few years later, to realise he’d never do exactly the same thing again.”
His statement was interrupted by the news that Putin had torn up the ceasefire and used his new territory to launch a direct attack on Kyiv.
“You know, now that I think of it, Hitler did invade the rest of Czechoslovakia and then Poland before we finally took our heads out of the sand and realised who he was,” said Putz. “So I suppose it’s just possible Putin will invade the rest of Ukraine and then… well, Poland again, I guess. They really get the shitty end of the stick, don’t they?”
