Cue John Hartford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dry-ldF3lvU.

I agree, for the most part. That’s why I think the Sudetenland is a good although imperfect analogy. One of the differences is that I don’t think Putin’s predations extend past Eastern Europe – perhaps because he knows that Western Europe really would defend itself with vigor.

Don’t know how worried Norway is, but apparently worried enough to do this:

https://www.thelocal.no/20220312/nato-launches-defence-exercise-in-norway/

Yes, it was planned prior to the Ukraine invasion, but why bother at all with this unless Norway had some concerns.

Thus, for instance, what will be the payment if Putin is successful in his invasion, subjugation, and absorption of the Ukraine back into something akin to the glorious old U.S.S.R. and, then, he sets his sights on the Baltic nations, and if not stopped in the Baltics, he starts to hungrily eye and advance on Poland or Hungary?

With each of these escalations, I’d imagine the cost to stop Russian aggression would grow increasingly greater than the costs today to put a stop to such aggression in the Ukraine.

Our leaders seem to have completely forgotten the lessons of WWII.

As I’ve remarked here before, we do seem to be reliving–and making the same mistakes–of the later part of the 1930s, and how Hitler’s aggression was not stopped in it’s early stages, until it eventually had to be stopped at a much greater cost.

This pre-WWII pattern of fear, hesitancy, and lack of bold action resulting in a world-wide war that eventually involved combat on virtually every continent and in every ocean, saw fighting by more than an estimated 60 million combatants, and, as a direct result, caused the deaths, world-wide, of somewhere around an estimated 50 million people, not to mention rearranging the map and the world order.

I was wondering about that too. However, I suspect it is pro-Putin folks flagging videos they don’t like as I have noticed a lot of other videos that are about Zelenskyy giving speeches to Western Parliaments/Congress having the same age-restricted warning. While other videos that show more graphic images are not age-restricted.

Interestingly, and rather typical of YouTube, I have noticed a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of videos from the “Russian Ministry of Defense” show up in my recommendations list. Not understanding any of the Russian language they are in, it seems to me that they are nothing more than Pro-Russian military forces propaganda. One seems to be Russian troops handing out food and other supplies to civilians (are they really civilians in Ukraine?). None of these propaganda videos seem to be flagged.

We can wait a few days to see if YouTube cleans this up by unflagging Zelenskyy videos. I won’t hold my breathe on YouTube removing the pro-Russian propaganda videos.

The same thing happened a few years back when BLM was claiming that Dixie was a racist anthem. A lot of videos featuring the song Dixie were flag as “inappropriate” but were unflag after about a week or so.

See here:
https://www.newsinenglish.no/2022/03/14/bomb-shelters-get-overdue-attention/

As if NATO wasn’t enough of a threat to Russia, now they have to deal with this.
Poor Mr. Putin.

John Campbell has provided a recap – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFu8UjySH28

This study constitutes a credible ‘excess mortality’ estimate of 18MM from Jan 2020 – Dec 2021 internationally assessing only 6MM as attributable to COVID deaths. In other words, twice as many ( 12MM) people had died from what most likely were repercussions of the COVID response.

* Excess mortality is the number of deaths above that expected for a population based on prior years and factoring mortality trends observed for that population.