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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some people have been saying this is the worst day since the German invasion of Poland prior to or at the start of World War II. Is the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the most recent escalation of the Russo Ukrainian conflict that bad or is it bad but not Germany invading Poland bad?
Rick Rosner: So there are a couple things. One is that Hitler definitely wanted to own the European continent and pretty fast and then Hitler wanted to kill a bunch of people; Jews, homosexuals, the handicapped, and the Holocaust refers to Hitler’s murder of six million Jews but he also murdered another 5 million in camps and in other ways. So, 11 million people Hitler just outright murdered for no good military reasons just because he didn’t like them. Hitler was responsible via World War II for the deaths of 30 to 35 million people overall.
Putin doesn’t want wholesale murder entire classes of people and he’s not intent on marching across a whole bunch of countries, at least it doesn’t seem that way. We’re talking right now about 90 minutes after Russia started shelling Kyiv and Kharkiv and several if not most large Ukrainian cities on Wednesday evening U.S/Canada time. He took Crimea in 2014, I think took Chechnya at some point, and he’s taken other regions but gradually enough that the world kind of let him get away with it. So, I don’t think Putin wants a full an all-out World War unlike Hitler who I think thought he could win a conflict of the size that he ended up getting into. So that’s one good thing.
The bad thing is that we have nuclear weapons; the U.S and Russia have nukes. I don’t think Ukraine has nukes at this point though I haven’t read about it but I think that when the Soviet Union fell that Russia pulled back all its nukes from outlying countries into Russia itself. Russia having nukes limits how much war you can wage against Russia that the U.S really did decide to go which we would. I don’t think that there’s a president that we’ve had in the past since World War II who’d risk an all-out war with Russia to stop them from taking a country, even a country as big as Ukraine which has 42 million people and is the size of Texas. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary in ’56 and went into Czechoslovakia in ’68. I’m sure we did stuff but we didn’t go to war with them and ditto for Russia going into Ukraine.
So, it’s bad, it makes the world feel like shit because there may not be anything the world can do about it short of going to war which the world won’t. So it’s not as bad as Hitler in 1939 but nukes make it worse because of the potential for any kind of nuclear exchange because nukes have been used once and that was nearly 77 years ago in war.
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Rick Rosner
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