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Bill Whittle: What Do Putin and Hitler Have in Common?
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Posted on 06/04/2014 4:01:54 PM PDT by free_life

THE WOLF, THE BEAR and THE LAMBS

One of the complaints leveled against Conservatives by Progressives is that we’re always looking backwards. Why always so locked in the past? Why so obsessed with history? Why always looking behind us? Why not look forward?

There’s actually a very simple explanation for that. You see, the past exists. And the future doesn’t. Not yet, anyway. That’s why progress isn’t always good. We could be progressing forward off a cliff. Or into the room where the murderer is hiding. Or out into the water where the shark is. And since we can’t know where we are going, the best we can do is to see if we can learn anything from where we have been.

And you don’t have to look far – not these days. No sir.

Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia would seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Crimea. And the Western intellectuals – “intellectuals” is Latin for “cowards” -- just swooned. A diplomatic solution!

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: putin; russia; ukraine; war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOO_iNHypyA

All throughout the mid to late thirties, the Wolf – Adolph Hitler, it was a codename that he kept for his entire career as Fuehrer / Dictator – bullied people and broke things. And the decent, civilized leader of England and France and simply wrung their hands, and wrote harshly worded diplomatic cables, and made vague threats of sanctions, and all the rest.

Hitler didn’t play the West like a violin: he played them like a light switch. Threaten violence, offer peace. Threaten violence, offer peace. Make outrageous demands; invade other countries; backdate the moral argument by claiming your are simply protecting your own ethnic populations against imagined and then invented foreign oppression, et cetera and so on and you know the drill. Well, some of us do, anyway.

Two days ago, skipping through my satellite comedy channels – where I keep the BBC – I came in on the end of an interview with an Estonian defense minister, who proceeded to remind Vladimir Putin – the Bear -- that Estonia was part of NATO, while the Ukraine is not. And the BBC interviewer leapt in, in tones of contempt and panic, protesting in a panic that that sort of language was counterproductive because it only antagonizes and offends Moscow. You don’t want to make them angry. It’s better to be nice to them before they overrun your country – you get a higher position in the slave government that way, and maybe they will shoot you last.

Now: both the Wolf and the Bear have a lot in common. Both were from humble beginnings, and both survived and clawed their way to becoming leaders of great nations by cunning and ruthlessness and the predator’s skill at finding weakness in their prey. Both without question have personally ordered the murder of political opponents. Both – and this is important – led nations that were filled with bitterness over lost glory, both fostered intense hatred of outsiders, and both promised to restore their national honor through military conquest. And most importantly, both the Wolf and the Bear represent nations with the exceedingly dangerous combination of resentment, envy, shame and unspoken but pervasive inferiority. That is a dangerous combination.

Opposing the Wolf and the Bear? Two Lambs.

Facing the Wolf: Neville Chamberlain, a proud, self-centered man, consumed with his own sense of self-importance: not terribly perceptive, or terribly interested in much of anything other than his own place in history as a result of his domestic social reforms.

Facing the Bear: ditto.

Hitler saw a vain and timid man who clutched at a piece of paper so that he didn’t have to look at what was behind it. Putin sees a man-child, who is put in his place by one of the women that have always told him what to do.

1 posted on 06/04/2014 4:01:54 PM PDT by free_life
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Bill Whittle: The Wolf, the Bear and the Lambs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOO_iNHypyA

2 posted on 06/04/2014 4:06:17 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. There are also things that are tried and true, and should be repeated. Democrats seem to think that change just for the sake of change is always a good thing. No it’s not.


3 posted on 06/04/2014 4:07:25 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: free_life

The old, “create an international crisis and then seek a favorable diplomatic solution” ploy. China gets honorable mention but Putin is the champion.


4 posted on 06/04/2014 4:09:25 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: free_life

It’d be more productive - and more to the point - to ask what Obama and Hitler have in common.


5 posted on 06/04/2014 4:17:08 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: free_life

No, facing the Bear is Oswald Mosley, a fellow traveler who sympathizes with Putin’s aims and wants payback for America winning the Cold War.


6 posted on 06/04/2014 4:17:18 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: free_life

Hillary's Ruthless Animosity to Even the Left-Leaning Press in Common With Image Obsession of the Great 20th Century Dictators

Re Washington Free Beacon: Hillary Camp in Secret Meet Tells NYT to Back Off

We already know that Hillary Clinton is extremely ruthless. Greater attention should be paid to her animosity even to the left-leaning press.

A common characteristic of the great 20th century dictators was the importance they placed on public image. The conventional American media image of Adolph Hitler as a buffoon was highly misleading, as typified by Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4 , or perhaps better by Spike Jones' "Der Führer's Face" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReV9dkAVhY

The true media profile of Hitler was that he was an extremely effective propagandist, nearly to the extent of something like "The Mule" in Isaac Azimov's "The Foundation Trilogy", a nearly psychic manipulator of public opinion. A dedicated sci-fi story that explored the issue of Hitler's extreme public relations effectiveness is Murray Leinster's "The Leader" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23612/23612-h/23612-h.htm .

Media Studies guru Marshall McLuhan used Hitler's extreme effectiveness in the use of the then-new medium of the public address/loudspeaker system to demonstrate the power of media to influence public opinion.

When Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote his apocalyptic "The Lord of the World" in 1907 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14021 , he could conceive of the Vatican being destroyed by aircraft ("volors", flyers), but he was unable to envision public address loudspeakers when he has the Anti-Christ, Julian Felsenburgh address crowds at "Paul's House" (St. Paul's Cathedral) in London. Felsenburgh emerges as the despot's dream, a propagandistic paragon, single-handedly turning the civilized world to obey his slightest whim by force of personality, rabid mob devotion.

7 posted on 06/04/2014 4:21:07 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: free_life
In the 1930s, someone heard Adolph Hitler being screamed at behind closed doors by the head of the German Central Bank [Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht]. Who could get away with screaming at Hitler and live?

Someone fronting from a group so powerful, it could have ordered that Hitler be made into Hoffaburger. It turns out that when Hitler first assumed power, he went with hat in hand to make his case to the heads of German industry that his gangster militias could deliver labor peace.

(Not that the Big Boys were exactly helpless – their corporate army was called Der Totenkopf, the “Death’s Head” – the SS. Their corporate heirs are the people who put out RU-486 chemical abortion. [IG Farben > Hoechst > Roussel Uclaf])

8 posted on 06/04/2014 4:26:11 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: free_life

The Chicoms are set to fix up an IV Viagra infusion pump for Big Br'O.


9 posted on 06/04/2014 4:40:42 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: free_life

They both steam-rolled weak, deluded incompetent Free World leaders.


10 posted on 06/04/2014 4:41:15 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: free_life

They both faced a weak commie in the White House?


11 posted on 06/04/2014 4:52:10 PM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: kaehurowing

I should have read to the bottom before posting.


12 posted on 06/04/2014 4:52:58 PM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: free_life

Better question yet, What does Putin, Obama, and Hitler have in common?


13 posted on 06/04/2014 5:00:52 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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