ping-aling-aling-aling!
Or maybe Putin, as a leader of nation that was victim of Hitler does see that NATO and EU are Hitlerite threat to humanity and wont let them get his country?
Except that Putin is not a Nazi, and has committed no massacres.
The only problem with this theory is that the people of Crimea willingly voted to join the Russian federation. Has Victor Davis Hanson ever heard of self determination?
The Hitler comparisons are ridiculous. Hitler invaded countries killing millions. How many people have the Russians killed in Ukraine?
Someone should make a movie about czarist Russia so that people like Victor Davis Hanson can extend his historical knowledge beyond Hitler and the second world war.