History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce

Marx wasn’t right about much, but this superb WSJ story shows Poland becoming a NATO Disneyland for potential conquering armies:

“Poland’s convenient location in the heart of Europe attracted plenty of uninvited armies in its war-ravaged past. Now the country is cashing in, leasing more land and airspace for war practice than any other European member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to which it has belonged for three years. “Times have changed,” says Col. Klaus Haacke of Germany, which, under the Nazis, invaded Poland in 1939.”

We’ve come a long way.