https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-war-in-ukraine-adolf-hitler-czechoslovakia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Vladimir Putin\u2019s desire to grab Ukraine\u2019s key defensive lines echoes how Adolf Hitler secured Czechoslovakia\u2019s fortifications.<\/p>\n
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“Ukraine has spent the last 11 years pouring time, money and effort into reinforcing the fortress belt and establishing significant defense industrial and defensive infrastructure in and around these cities,” the institute said.<\/p>\n
If that happens, Russia would move its frontline roughly 80 kilometers further west, while Ukraine would be forced to build new defenses on flat and open terrain in neighboring Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk \u2014 far harder to hold than the fortified cities it controls now.<\/p>\n
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In September 1938, Adolf Hitler argued that handing over the ethnic-German majority Sudetenland region to the Reich would satisfy his ambitions and end the threat of war in Europe. France and Britain agreed, and browbeat Prague into accepting. Hitler \u2014 whose word was as reliable as Putin’s \u2014 said he had no further territorial ambitions.” <\/p>\n
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