Spot on. And the mistake of considering appeasement of said totalitarian superpower by “letting them have it” would be just as enormous.

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jabron 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Comparing Nazi Germany and the PRC in any way is certainly an interesting choice, considering they're the one major power in the world that actually doesn't have a recent history of invading sovereign nations.

	▲	noduerme 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Come again? Tibet was absolutely a sovereign nation. I guess it depends what you mean by "recent", but the colonization is still underway, daily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
	▲	Lio 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yeah they do. Even right now they're trying to take territory from the Philippines. China just has a history of denying what they're doing as they're doing it. There are so many examples online. My favourite is of a Chinese warship ramming into its own coast guard vessel as they fail to intimidate the Philippines Coast Guard. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev22n0lm1xo
	▲	MangoCoffee 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		does the Sino-Vietnamese War not count as recent?
	▲	matkoniecz 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is a lie. China has an ongoing invasion of Bhutan. China built a road and villages and military outposts in Bhutan, over China-Bhutan border.