Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Robert C. O’Brien: What would Winston Churchill do?
A litttle boy sits in a baby's bath at a temporary facility for refugees form eastern Ukraine, 20 km outside from the Crimean capital Simferopol, on July 17, 2014.
Russia's naked grab of Crimea, its continuing intimidation of Kiev and Putin's proffered justification—that he is merely protecting ethnic Russians—parallel a much darker time in European history. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made this point last month: "Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the '30s. All the Germans that were ... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous."
