re: Putin gives Ukrainian seperatist tanks.

I'm agreeing with your point (I think) about the early formation of Slavic nations and the history of Russia, and the Ukraine. Muscovites were the successors to the Kiev Rus' It's pretty much the same fricking thing

as to the rest of my point, I'm pointing out that the appeasement policy that didn't work on Hitler won't work on Putin and the nationalities and ethnic makeup are irrelevant as they were then. Austria is to Germany as Ukraine is to Russia. But what does it fricking matter? Putin is expanding territories. he's tested the waters and the line of thinking I've been reading is the same philosophy that doomed the free world in the early 20th century.

It's the same fricking thing. Only he's using the Milosevic tactic of pawning responsibility off on local militia separatists. He's not going to stop here...there is nothing historically to suggest otherwise.