RE:President Biden: Must we go to war in Ukraine?Peace in our time, Turbo? Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are ... idiots.
Got news for ya', this ain't nuthin' new. Putin isn't the first dictator to desire "living space" from neighboring countries.
"During World War II, Reichskommissariat Ukraine (abbreviated as RKU) was the civilian occupation regime (Reichskommissariat) of much of Nazi German-occupied Ukraine
The administration's tasks included the pacification of the region and the exploitation, for German benefit, of its resources and people. Adolf Hitler issued a Fhrer Decree defining the administration of the newly occupied Eastern territories on 17 July 1941.[2]
Before the German invasion, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, inhabited by Ukrainians with Russian, Polish, Jewish, Belarusian, German, Romani and Crimean Tatar minorities. It was a key subject of Nazi planning for the post-war expansion of the German state. The Nazi occupation of Ukraine ended the lives of millions of civilians in The Holocaust and other Nazi mass killings: it is estimated 900,000 to 1.6 million J_ws and 3[3] to 4[4] million non-Jewish Ukrainians were killed during the occupation; other sources estimate that 5.2 million Ukrainian civilians (of all ethnic groups) perished due to crimes against humanity, war-related disease, and famine amounting to more than 12% of Ukraine's population at the time.[5]”
Read more:
BBC - History - World Wars: Hitler and 'Lebensraum' in the East b.