I’ve had enough. This really needs to be said. History abuse must stop.
If you’ve paid attention to the news recently, it’s been hard not to notice that analogies to World War II have become increasingly ridiculous, especially regarding the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s negotiations to end it.
Western media and political elites (I’m looking at you, New York Times) appear to have little framework by which to analyze current events through historical analogy other than through the most distorted, movie-like version of the Second World War that has little connection to reality.
Every single political event and leader is, like a broken record, compared to some bad Marvel comic version of its World War II self. Trump is Hitler. Trump is Neville Chamberlain. Putin is Hitler. Zelenskyy is Winston Churchill. Keir Starmer…
