By the way, Russia has a relatively limited supply of T-80s.
The man has the ego of an emperor and the social intelligence of, I don’t want to find the appropriate metaphor. He is smart though and makes a lot of money.
Of course. Anything else would be a disgrace for a Great Power…
This is quite big isn’t it?
I don’t really think that comparisons with WW2 are helpful to understand the current situation. Hitler and the likes in 1939 are now 80 years away from us. Despite some superficial look-a-likes, there are some noticeable differences:
- For instance, Germany had by far the most modern and functional army in the world when the war started. That isn’t the case for Russia at all, as their current logistical difficulties in Ukraine show.
- In 1939, Germany took the western part of Poland, while Russia almost simultaneously took the Eastern part, a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Here, Russia act alone. China aren’t actively involved in this.
- Most importantly, Hitler didn’t face a large coalition of nations holding the nuclear threat, and determined to resist his territorial desires. His pushes were invariably met with Europe disuniting itself further. It needed the invasion of Poland to change that. So, if you really want to draw a comparison, the current invasion has furthered an increased sense of togetherness within NATO and a willingness from European nations to arm themselves well beyond their current status (hence Biden’s triumphal smile when he first announced that Russia had invaded Ukraine: most of these weapons will be US-made).
To make a long story short, we should rather take the situation at face value imo, rather than compare it to something which belongs to the distant past. Putin is not Hitler, and Johnson certainly isn’t Churchill! 
It is. Because they really dont want to do it. Washington must have leaned on them.
But T90’s are even more rare?
Of course, you can certainly draw distinctions but the willingness of some to concede the territory that Russia has taken in the last three weeks (and before) as an acceptable outcome certainly smacks of allowing Germany to take first the Sudetenland and then Czechoslovakia. That is not an outcome that should be countenanced.
Incidentally, I never have and never would compare Johnson to Churchill.