On March 6th, 1936, Adolf Hitler Took The Rhineland To Start His Conquests, Vladimir Putin Is Following In Those Same Footsteps By Invading Ukraine

Now The End Begins ^ | Geoffrey Grider

[pissant]

Settle down Beavis. SoConpubbie has been here since 2007. Not a troll.

However, your Putin is Hitler comparison is weak tea. To this day, Russians hate Nazis.

Many forms of tyrannical leaders, and many excuses (lame or otherwise) to invade other countries. It’s the history of the world. Certainly the history of Russia. It is almost always the case when a powerful country is run by a despot, whether it’s a neo-czarist like Putin, a commie POS like Xi Jinping, or the European monarchs over the last 1500 years. Same shit, different titles.

[Vermont Lt]

Hitler did all that stuff pre 9/1/39 without a shot. (More or less.). How is that comparable to a full blown invasion of the second largest country in Europe?

The whole Hitler comparisons these day just mean, “He is a bad man.”

We should just accept Putin as the small man that he is.

[Wallace T.]

By the 1980s, the Soviet leadership perceived that the Communist ideology and party had lost the hearts and minds of the Russian people. The United States under Reagan had greatly increased American military might, so that the Soviets, which were crippled by a socialist economy, could not keep up. The captive nations were restive, and Poland had already been de facto lost thanks to Solidarity and Pope John Paul II.

A Soviet defector, Anatoly Golitsyn, alleged that the Soviet leadership had decided to temporarily dissolve the USSR and Warsaw Pact and engage in a prolonged deception even as KGB senior officials and Communist Party members posed as moderates, democrats, even rightists. Golitsyn authored two books, New Lies for Old and The Perestroika Deception, that outlined his allegations.

It appears that after Putin came to power, after former Communist and KGB leaders who suddenly became "capitalist" oligarchs, enriched themselves at the expense of their country, the deception went into overdrive. Even as the Russians resumed ties with countries like Cuba and Syria and established new connections with newly Marxist countries like Venezuela, the Russian leadership suddenly found religion. After 70 years of atheist propaganda, suppression of religious worship, and thousands of clergy killed, often in gruesome manners, the Soviet leadership recognized that Orthodox Christianity thrived. So as the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them. As far back as Stalin's day, the NKVD infiltrated and controlled the above ground Russian Orthodox Church. Despite the Christian veneer, the former KGB agent, Putin, continued his war against the West.

As China cultivated business ties and blackmail material against the American elites in business, politics, and entertainment, Russia loudly proclaimed its adherence to what we call family or traditional values. Suppressing flagrant homosexual displays and restoring desecrated Orthodox churches won a lot of points with anti-elite factions: paleoconservatives, libertarians, and conspiracists. Look at LewRockwell.com. Infowars, Pat Buchanan, and you will read or hear frequent denunciations of China yet praises or at a minimum neutrality towards Russia.

The elites of the USA and the Western democracies hate Russia for the same image of traditional values that attracts many on the Right. So they regularly denounce Russia even as conservatives denounce China for its human rights violations. The elite's over the top reactions to COVID and their promotion of sexual perversion and anti-white racial hatred have totally alienated the non-elite in what we call flyover country and the Australians call the outback.

Now the elite in the U.S. and the NATO countries find themselves in a predicament. Their "woke" ideology and failure to properly fund their militaries have seriously weakened their armed forces. The elite have also alienated the working and middle classes who have always fought their wars. Putin and Xi see what looks like terminal decadence and are calling the West's bluff.

[MinorityRepublican]

The elites of the USA and the Western democracies hate Russia for the same image of traditional values that attracts many on the Right.

I admire Putin for being a supporter of traditional values. But he's a thug. I believe when Trump was President, he had him checked. Let's see if we will survive the next couple of years with Biden. He has to tell Putin that if he goes too far, he is willing to nuke him. MAD had served us well for many decades. Let's not change the equation.

[carikadon]

Oh like Biden (aka Obama/Soros) is allowing on the borders of our sovereign nation?

[SoConPubbie]

:)

[SoConPubbie]

Haven’t heard from you in ages Pissant!

How are things with you?

[pissant]

Hey hey. All is fine. Still hanging around FR to get the news stories all in one place, though mostly just reading and not arguing these days.

But some hysterical dude calling a seasoned FR vet a 'troll' caught my eye.

[jmacusa]

The attitude at the time was “Ell, after all they’re only marching into their own backyard’’.

[ohioman]

Go sign up for the Ukie army if it makes you feel better.

[NorseViking]

I don’t think that the Turks were endangered in Cyprus. It makes difference.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Anybody with a posting history defending a tyrant (SoConPubbie is guilty of it) is questionable.

You ever heard of the sleeper troll?

I’ve seen folks with 1998 join dates get banned for it.

[SoConPubbie]

Thanks Pissant!