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Originally Posted by deltav
And Hitler had that perfected to a T - it's got nothing to do with the Holocaust - in the late 1930s he was all about expanding under the auspices of bringing ethnic Germans back into the fold. Czech, Poland, Austria, etc. And it totally worked.
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I should revise that. "It worked" in Czech (Sudentenland) and Austria, when they rolled into Poland the Allies declared war which Hitler did not actually expect. He had no real interest in war with the British and in any event wanted to build up a few more years (I think 1943 was the plan?) before the big fight.
That's why shit like this Ukraine deal is so dangerous - you have no idea when events will outstrip the various leaders' plans and snowball with a life of their own.