Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Is Vladimir Putin Another Adolf Hitler?
Forbes ^ | 04/16/2014 | Paul Johnson

Posted on 04/17/2014 3:50:14 AM PDT by Siegfried X

As Mein Kampf makes clear, Hitler sought to unite all the people of German speech and culture into one state, or Reich, preferably by peaceful negotiation, otherwise by war and conquest...

Today’s drift toward war with Russia seems like a replay of the past. Putin is a Russian nationalist, who believes in a strong Stalinist state. His goal is to reverse the events of 1989–the end of the Soviet state and dissolution of its enormous empire...

...to wield against the various weak states that were part of the U.S.S.R... All have ethnic Russian minorities, who speak the language, boast of their superior Russian culture and claim to have been relegated to second-class citizenship. Putin can rely on these minorities to agitate for Russian intervention whenever he wants–most importantly in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. His successful annexation of Crimea is greatly encouraging to his long-term plans, and it’s clear he’ll use everything in his power, including military force, to reconstruct his empire.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; coldwar2; communism; hitler; newrussia; novorossiya; obamasbuttboys; putin; russia; sovietunion; stalin
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-118 next last
To: Siegfried X
What’s to stop Putin? The West is led by the modern equivalents of Chamberlain...worst of all, President Barack Obama–the one man who has the power to stop Putin in his tracks–does nothing. He makes Neville Chamberlain seem like a bellicose activist.

Johnson nails it.

21 posted on 04/17/2014 4:45:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cowboy Bob

Johnson is writing about Putin’s nationalist ambitions, not about racial and religious bigotry. He makes an interesting case. He certainly pegs BO well:

“Clearly there’s something fundamentally wrong with the U.S. President.”


22 posted on 04/17/2014 4:49:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

He’s a nasty character for sure.

But all Hitler comparisons fall flat until he kills his first 20 million.


23 posted on 04/17/2014 4:59:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

US-Russian relations under the Czar were cordial, yet they were an Empire and doing some bad things back then as well, we didn’t seem to mind so much, we figured it was their “Sphere of Influence.”

I don’t like seeing the Hitler card being used with Putin....Maybe the “Czar” card, but that’s a completely different thing.


24 posted on 04/17/2014 4:59:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X
Wait, I thought Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was the next Hitler? Or was it the late Slobodan Milosevic? Or Saddam Hussein? Or Kim Jong Il?

Every few years the media gets in a tizzy about some new thug on the block -- and starts comparing them to Hitler. In reality, none of them have been anything like the actual Hitler. That goes for Putin as well.

25 posted on 04/17/2014 5:02:21 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SoFloFreeper
Johnson nails it.

What would you want the United States to do? Invade Russia?

26 posted on 04/17/2014 5:04:22 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

Whether he is or he isn’t, one thing is clear - Obama intends to sit back and watch Putin’s moves with an idiot grin on his face and his thumb stuck up his *ss.

Obama’s only political activities these days are to aggregate political power within the US, persecute conservatives, and destroy the constitution.

Is it any wonder that Putin is thumbing his nose?


27 posted on 04/17/2014 5:09:25 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

He’s not even close.


28 posted on 04/17/2014 5:17:50 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

Wait and see how the persecution of Christians is executed in the West.


29 posted on 04/17/2014 5:19:33 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

It appears to me at first glance that the majority of the people of Crimea and the whole Ukrane like being Russian and want to go back into the fold.

This is not Czechoslovakia or Poland This is more like Austria.


30 posted on 04/17/2014 5:22:53 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: x1stcav
I think the real question is Putin another Barak Obama?

He's not as bad as Obama in many respects.

Obama has dedicated himself to making war on his own country America.

Putin puts the well being and improvement of his country first.

We may not agree with Putin's views of what is good and what is not good but we cannot ignore the fact he is a patriot
any more than we can ignore the fact that Obama is not a patriot.

Putin shows love and pride in Russia.

Obama shows hate and embarrassment for America.


31 posted on 04/17/2014 5:28:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: bert

Mother of God, chase Putin away!

32 posted on 04/17/2014 5:29:19 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

Depending on how one’s perspective, Putin could be WORSE than Hitler, if he ever decides to really ‘break bad’. I don’t think Putin would have the same foolish tendencies to commit military blunders that Hitler did.


33 posted on 04/17/2014 5:33:03 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X
The Corporate Media labels the Globalist's latest Enemy-of-the-week the new Hitler.


34 posted on 04/17/2014 5:36:09 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

Russia has 100X more ‘Lebensraum’ than the tiny Russian people could ever use in a thousand years.


35 posted on 04/17/2014 5:41:07 AM PDT by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 4rcane
No, Putin is not a Hitler because he doesn’t hate the jews like the Ukraine government, US is supporting

YOU GET IT... thanks.

36 posted on 04/17/2014 5:42:25 AM PDT by Rodamala
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: G Larry
Wait and see how the persecution of Christians is executed in the West.

No need to wait... we see it everyday in the U.S. news... keyword search: homoagenda.

37 posted on 04/17/2014 5:44:28 AM PDT by Rodamala
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Rodamala

They’re just pushing the “Putin is like Hitler” meme because they want to steer away from the idea that socialist/communist/leftist governments are evil and tyrannical.


38 posted on 04/17/2014 5:45:44 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Siegfried X

Last year our military spending was $640 billion
Russia spend $88 billion.

OHHHHH Scarrrry boys and girls.


39 posted on 04/17/2014 5:46:07 AM PDT by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Alter Kaker

Why would you think that would be the primary or only solution? I suspect you did not read the short article or consider Johnson’s argument.


40 posted on 04/17/2014 5:52:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-118 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson