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Vladimir Putin and the rise of the ‘short kings’
The Week ^ | 31 JAN 2023 | HOLLIE CLEMENCE

Posted on 05/27/2023 7:05:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As the world struggles to understand Vladimir Putin’s motivations in Ukraine, some critics have resorted to jibes about the Russian president’s height.

Britain’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has called him a “lunatic” with “small man syndrome”, while US Republican Senator Mitt Romney said he was a “small, evil, feral-eyed man”.

At an estimated 5ft 7in, Putin has been labelled as having “Napoleon complex”. But he is only half an inch shorter than the global mean height for adult men and - as The New European points out - is joined by a “new generation of short kings”.

Jeremy Clarkson suggested in The Times that the “real reason for the madness” apparently exhibited by Putin is simple: he is “not very tall”.

And “being not very tall seems to affect people”, Clarkson wrote. “Napoleon wasn’t very tall. Hitler wasn’t very tall. Mussolini wasn’t very tall… Their shortness eats into their very being and they become mad.”

Geography appears to be against Putin too. “The average height of Russian men is also 5ft 10in, which is presumably why Putin is so angry all the time,” Clarkson continued. “Because everyone he meets, all day and every day, is three inches taller than him.”

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To: Fai Mao

No, the Russians are doing exactly what the Nazis did in 1939 - there were ethic diasporas in another sovereign country, so they annexed those territories. Ergo, it’s the Russians who are the Nazis here. Try to keep up.


21 posted on 05/27/2023 9:45:07 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Apparatchik

The similarities are,I think superficial, the Germans had never been sovereign over the Sudatenland. They had openly expressed an imperial, expansionist policy for years. Russia hasn’t done that since it ceased to be the USSR. The Germans were were openly expansionist before the invasion and they made no pretext that the Cheks were threatening them.

I am not necessarily justifying Russian actions. I am saying maybe they are not cardboard villains and we should take them at their word. They believed adding Ukraine to NATO was a threat. That Ukraine was dominated by neoNAZIs (Hint: it was) and that the Russian speaking minority in the Eastern Ukraine would welcome them.

And yes, the Ukraine is more corrupt than Russian and Putin is better than Biden on every issue and the US has become the Great Whore of Babylon and must not be supoorted.


22 posted on 05/27/2023 11:04:18 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Fai Mao

Brian Kilmeade of Fox News is another guy suffering from short man syndrome. Always the aggressive little bantam cock. A warmonger, especially about the Ukraine/Russian (U.S. by proxy) war. Another short man with a giant ego and a Napoleonic complex


23 posted on 05/28/2023 12:26:47 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Trump knows where all the bodies lie - just sayin.....)
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To: Apparatchik; Fai Mao
Wow - that’s the exact same rationale used by actual Nazis to annex the Sudetenland and then later invade the rest of Bohemia and Moravia.

The truth, in a nutshell!

Regards,

24 posted on 05/28/2023 1:49:54 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Fai Mao; Apparatchik
The similarities are,I think superficial

Hitler had a moustache, and Putin does not, so any comparison of their penchant for invading peaceful neighboring countries and annexing vast swathes of their territory is fallacious!

Got it!

Seriously: No comparison is 100% accurate. No analogy is perfect. But it should be OBVIOUS to anyone with eyes to see that Russia is the aggressor here - not Ukraine.

Regards,

25 posted on 05/28/2023 1:54:52 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Apparatchik

putin is a psychopath


26 posted on 05/28/2023 2:16:18 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong

Yep. They all are.


27 posted on 05/28/2023 2:17:29 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Fai Mao
the Germans had never been sovereign over the Sudaetenland.

The various Germanic tribes were moving to-and-fro in Central Europe for millenia with all sorts of settlement areas. Don't limit your view to a few years in the 20th century. (Not to be taken as an endorsement of the invasion of an, at that point, sovereign state.)

28 posted on 05/28/2023 4:00:38 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

At an estimated 5ft 7in,


That’s how tall he is with his special shoes that enable him to walk on his toes, giving him an extra 3-4” of height.


29 posted on 05/28/2023 4:13:54 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m 6’2” but I have to ask, if short a-holes are accused of having a Napoleon complex what do you call tall a-holes? DeGaulle complex? Peter the Great complex?


30 posted on 05/28/2023 5:00:39 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods
I'm not sure about any of that stuff but I know a couple of really tall guys who are bullies.

One even publicly shamed his golf ‘friend’ about his ‘shorter’ stature. Everyone around was embarrassed with his conduct.

And we have tall uncle that no one ever wanted around because of HIS nasty bullying personality.

But I'm no expert about that

31 posted on 05/28/2023 7:01:20 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This article is short on facts and and is more suited to midget minds.


32 posted on 05/28/2023 9:04:52 AM PDT by Old Man From WV
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To: SMARTY
I'm not sure about any of that stuff but I know a couple of really tall guys who are bullies.

Maybe those "tall" guys are "short" in, ahem, other departments.

Regards,

33 posted on 05/28/2023 11:01:18 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

I’ll have to take your word for it 😁


34 posted on 05/28/2023 12:48:26 PM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: All

Winston Churchill (5 ft 6 in.), Harry Truman (5 ft 8 in), Joseph Stalin (5 ft. 5 in.)

35 posted on 05/28/2023 1:15:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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