I agree with your analogy and I suspect a lot of history-savvy Europeans are having similar thoughts.
On the other hand, in the 1930s Europe was still composed of mainly independent sovereign nation states with their own unique cultures and languages. Now, with the EU and NATO and the U.S. unified into a western empire and calling the collective shots, it’s like phase one of Hitler’s strategy to unify Western Europe has already occurred and all the military attention can be aimed at Russia. So there are also shades of 1941 when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa. But of course that is an inexact analogy, too, since history doesn’t repeat, it only rhymes.
Still, as in the 1930s, if I had friends or family in Europe now, I’d be tempted to tell them to flee. Of course the problem is there are few places to go where they could escape the carnage that may be coming.
I agree with your analogy and I suspect a lot of history-savvy Europeans are having similar thoughts.
On the other hand, in the 1930s Europe was still composed of mainly independent sovereign nation states with their own unique cultures and languages. Now, with the EU and NATO and the U.S. unified into a western empire and calling the collective shots, it’s like phase one of Hitler’s strategy to unify Western Europe has already occurred and all the military attention can be aimed at Russia. So there are also shades of 1941 when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa. But of course that is an inexact analogy, too, since history doesn’t repeat, it only rhymes.
Still, as in the 1930s, if I had friends or family in Europe now, I’d be tempted to tell them to flee. Of course the problem is there are few places to go where they could escape the carnage that may be coming.