The Brain-Dead Munich Analogy

Now that Vladimir Putin has taken the "extremist" position that NATO missiles and armed fascists on the Russian border are grossly provocative conditions that no self-respecting nation would tolerate, lapdogs in the U.S. media are yelping about "Munich" again, implying that failure to support U.S. policy in the Ukraine amounts to selling out to totalitarianism, as the U.S. did with the Nazi dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Such "appeasement" is shameful, says the lapdog chorus pushing us toward WWIII.

In point of fact, however, the U.S. did more than "appease" the Nazis, and has never had any issue with totalitarianism per se. Let's review the basic history. Hitler came to power in March 1933. U.S. troops didn't see action against the Nazis until 1942, and only after Hitler declared war on the U.S. in the wake of Pearl Harbor. All during the intervening years, key U.S. officials were declaring Hitler a "moderate" who could be worked with, unlike the "extremist" Commies. And U.S. investment shot up in Germany by nearly 50% when the Nazis came to power, while declining everywhere else on the European continent. There's only one way to interpret that: the U.S. liked Hitler's program, and invested in it. Moreover, in the wake of every fascist defeat during the war, the U.S. installed a successor fascist government. So the U.S. never took on the Nazis for being Nazis, only for being insubordinate. We like our fascists to follow orders, don't mind at all that they torture and massacre people. We're fine with that. Just look at the plague of neo-Nazi clone governments the U.S. supported after WWII.

Reports of the U.S. saving the world from fascism are greatly exaggerated.