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Okay, boys and girls, get out your maps and your history books, because today we’re going to learn why history is rhyming today with 1938, and why that’s a bad thing.
Mark Twain famously said history doesn’t repeat, but it sometimes rhymes – and for those of us who know our history, today feels like a definite rhyme in a bad way. What we’ve got is Putin playing the part of Hitler from 1938, and Trump doing a really weak and stupid imitation of Neville Chamberlain from the same time. So let’s talk about it.
To begin with, here is a map of Europe in 1938-ish, the mid-30s. You’ll notice Germany right there in the center, and you’ll notice below Germany is Austria.
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