This week, I watched a documentary about the Winter War between Russia and Finland.

The comparison with the Russian invasion of Ukraine is, in my eyes, crystal clear. Russia made the same mistakes.

But there's another significant parallel unfolding in the world right now that points back to the same period in the past. Just look at how Hitler came to power democratically in the 1930s and then dismantled democracy. Now look at how Trump is doing the same in the US!

What I want to say with this is what Paul Warburg also expressed in his words: Apparently, we are incapable of learning from our mistakes.

In 1938, no one recognized Hitler's enormous ambitions. (And Stalin's, but he later became our "ally", so we stopped talking about that, and the Winter War was almost forgotten.)

In 2025, few people want to see Putin's enormous ambition.

Putin loudly states that he wants all of Ukraine and that it won't end there. He himself says that he wants to bring the Russian world into what was once the USSR's sphere of influence. Everything that was once Russian must become Russian again. He says it, but almost no one wants to hear it. Because hearing it means that you ALSO have to agree with OR concede to the dictator, OR arm yourself against him.

But Putin and Lavrov seem like such respectable gentlemen...

This was literally said to me by someone who wants "peace": Just close your eyes to the psychopath's endless ambition and see what comes next. They'd rather do that than admit that they are for armament and potentially a war because they want to stop Russian ambitions.

The peace movement will bring us the next world war, if it hasn't already started. Purely because we are AGAIN making the mistake of not stopping the psychopath with a large army in time.

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