![]() ![]() Plokhy suggests that this approach actually contributed to the war in Ukraine by providing Russia with the resources to rearm. He argues that Western countries, particularly Germany, failed to recognise the aggressive and revisionist nature of Putin's Russia and pursued a policy of engagement and trade in the belief that this would prevent conflict. Plokhy also draws similarities between the policy of appeasement pursued by Western countries in the 1930s and Germany's strategy in relation to Russia prior to 2022. ![]() He points to the annexation of Crimea as being comparable to the 1938 Anschluss of Austria. Plokhy argues that both Putin's Russia and Nazi Germany were "obsessed with annexation". Historian Serhii Plokhy has drawn parallels between Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the actions of Nazi Germany in the lead up to World War II. ![]()
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