Is this what the 1930s felt like?
Blustering, bluffing, calls for appeasement, war simmering on the sidelines, ongoing massacres and that pervasive sense of dread, complete with daily provocations by the fascists?
"History does not repeat, but it often rhymes." - Theodor Reik
Change a name here and a country there, and it is hard not to see the parallels.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". - George Santayana.
We don't remember and we haven't learned anything.
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