The World’s Most Powerful Weapon Against Vladimir Putin
Is the Information Age and each other.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his full-scale military invasion of the Ukraine on February 24, 2022, comparisons to the last major invasion in Europe have seemed inevitable.
It’s understandable in a way: Germany’s invasion of Poland in September of 1939 led directly to a full-scale world war. World War II wrought unimaginable destruction and suffering across three theaters of conflict. It resulted in the deaths of 70-85 million people and ended with the first use of nuclear weapons in human history.
We hope the first use of nuclear weapons was also the last, but we suddenly fear it might not be so.
Given these fears, we are perhaps right to examine wars past- diplomatic mistakes which might have prevented pre-WWII conflicts from escalating at key points, the fact that global media outlets ignored the humanitarian horrors Hitler was unleashing until they could avoid it no longer.
And others.
Of course, the situations in 1939 and 2022 are as dissimilar as they are similar, and no one is Hitler but Hitler- may there never be another.
Comparing the engineered mass genocide of 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust to any other crime against…