The hyperbolic comparisons between Russia and Vladimir Putin to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, as well as constant accusations that anyone who attempts to negotiate with Russia for a peaceful end to the war is engaged in “appeasement,” have cost the world opportunities to de-escalate.

Good grief, I was expecting Richard J. Evans to be more sophisticated than this. I mean, Snyder, yeah, no surprise there. But the author of The Third Reich in Power? Ugh, it makes me embarrassed to cite him as a source. This is a good article nonetheless.