The League of Nations was bound to protect Ethiopia. It was under pressure from this very effective leader, Hylie Solasic. And so the League reached into its toolbox to try and find some way to help that wouldn't put all of Europe back at war again.
An authoritarian ruler moves to invade a smaller country and take it for himself. People around the world rally to that country’s defense. European and American leaders grapple with how to stop the invasion and prevent a wider war. But this isn’t Russia and Ukraine in 2022. It’s Italy and Ethiopia in 1935. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore what we can learn from the very different choices made decades ago, when the world faced a similar challenge.