Europeans need to defeat Russia's invasion of Ukraine to protect themselves. But beware a failure to repeat the smooth victory over Hitler in 1945 and transition to peace with victor and vanquished clear? Are we talking about the same era?
Apparently, defeating Russia's war to conquer Ukraine won't be as clear as the end of World War II when the guns fall silent:
Yet it won’t be over even when it’s over. Unlike on VE Day 1945, we won’t know who has won at the moment the shooting stops. The arrival of “peace”—most likely in the form of a ceasefire that becomes a longer-lasting freezing of hostilities along the current frontline—will be another moment of danger for Ukraine. Internally, all the social differences and traumas accumulated in years of war could explode in an angry presidential election campaign and highly divisive subsequent politics.
An angry election campaign, eh? The horror.
So very sad that the clarity of victory and smooth transition to peace after World War II won't be repeated:
Imagine a world without institutions. it is a world where borders between countries seem to have dissolved, leaving a single, endless landscape over which people travel in search of communities that no longer exist. ...
Nothing is made here: the great factories and businesses that used to exist have all been destroyed or dismantled, as have most of the other buildings. There ar no tools, save what can be dug out of the rubble. There is no food.
Law and order are virtually non-existent, because there is no police force and no judiciary. In some areas there no longer seems to be any clear sense of what is right and what is wrong. People help themselves to whatever they want without regard to ownership--indeed, the sense of ownership itself has largely disappeared.
Oh.
That was the reality of the "clarity" of winning World War II that led to internal chaos and shifted right into the Cold War--avoiding this path!
Be careful what you wish for.
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