Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "How World War II began in precisely the same way that the present war with Russia is now developing" video.

The trouble with this analogy is that Putin isn't Hitler and the Russian army is not the Wehrmacht. Hitler made his intentions clear in his writings - and so has Putin. They are very different. Putin regretfully admits that recovering the Russian Empire is not only impossible but undesirable. He may be lying, of course, but his reasoning is pretty convincing. I fear World War may kick off due to an over-reaction to Putin's current attempts to maintain control of the mineral riches of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, as many imagine it to be the same as Hitler's first moves in the 1930s. I don't think it is. Historical analogies can be very dangerous. History does NOT repeat itself very often. It may superficially appear to do so but the differences between two situations are generally far more significant than the similarities.
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