Did any of the young German men in motorcycles with sidecars, motorized armor carriers, tanks and plain trucks crossing into Poland would end in devastation from London to Moscow 6 years later, with their own country nothing but rubble?
Probably not.
I don't think any of us can imagine the major cities of the world flattened by nuclear weapons. Yet we are at the brink.
Vladimir Putin, who thinks he is a Tsar, has reminded us of past dictators who risked world peace to attain essentially minor geopolitical gains along their countries' borders.
Would Hitler have stopped at splitting Poland with Stalin if Britain and France had not declared war? Will Putin stop at overthrowing the present Ukrainian government and "de-nazifying" (whatever that means and it isn't good) the country? Will Ukraine even be allowed to be a separate country? Then, when does he make a grab for Poland and Romania?
Are we at the beginning of the last World War?
