I hope, someday – probably decades in the future – we can have a major international negotiation over potential war flashpoints without endless and uninformed invocation of “Munich.”
"There was also a very non-testosterone factor in play. Taking the portion of Czechoslovakia that Hitler did mean the Germans were in control of the massive Skoda arms works there. And it gave a spectacular boost to Germany armaments effort during the following year. This was a huge advantage for Germany, and probably should have been a much stronger consideration in their decision-making."
AFAIK, the Skoda Works were in Plzen, which is right outside of the Sudetenland. Hitler took it in March 1939.
And actually, Russia's current war in Ukraine would be comparable to Hitler taking the Sudetenland in late 1938 and then trying to take Prague in March 1939 but miraculously failing against all odds and thus being satisfied with only marginal territorial gains. I guess that this would require a much weaker Hitler, though.
The question is whether Russia would try attacking Ukraine again in the future in the hope of increasing its spoils.
"There was also a very non-testosterone factor in play. Taking the portion of Czechoslovakia that Hitler did mean the Germans were in control of the massive Skoda arms works there. And it gave a spectacular boost to Germany armaments effort during the following year. This was a huge advantage for Germany, and probably should have been a much stronger consideration in their decision-making."
AFAIK, the Skoda Works were in Plzen, which is right outside of the Sudetenland. Hitler took it in March 1939.
And actually, Russia's current war in Ukraine would be comparable to Hitler taking the Sudetenland in late 1938 and then trying to take Prague in March 1939 but miraculously failing against all odds and thus being satisfied with only marginal territorial gains. I guess that this would require a much weaker Hitler, though.
The question is whether Russia would try attacking Ukraine again in the future in the hope of increasing its spoils.