The parallels between today and September 1939, when Hitler’s German legions smashed into Poland to ignite Europe in the Second World War, are uncanny.
It certainly makes 2022 the most dangerous year in Europe since the end of that terrible, bloody war in 1945.
What the West does now will have dramatic consequences for the future of the world as we know it. If the world allows Putin to get away with his latest land-grab (he has form in this area, seizing the Crimea from Ukraine and helping so-called ‘separatists’ take over the Donbas region in 2014) there’s a very good chance he’ll take this as carte blanche to do it again, elsewhere.
