Fun fact: Your side does want WW3.
***Your claim is that my side agrees with me. I KNOW that I do NOT want WW3. QED, my side does not want WW3.
Comparing Putin to Hitler is ludicrous.
***No it isn’t. The parallels are striking.
Hitler wanted most of Western Europe (partly to avenge WW1, partly to pursue his “German Living Space” agenda). Putin does not want Western Europe,
***He sure is pushin’ hard against it, threatening NATO and all those former soviet slave states.
nor does he desire WW3 (unlike the Soros puppet in Ukraine begging for nuclear holocaust
***How is [presumably] Zelenskyy begging for nuke holocaust? This is hyperbole of the highest order.
to save a corrupt state that shouldn’t even exist
***shouldn’t? More hyperbole. Look at that Budapest Agreement where we basically not only say it SHOULD exist but we ASSURE its borders, sovereignty, its existence.
under its present boundaries). The only argument you can make for Putin is that he wants the Russian areas of Ukraine back within Russia
***Same exact argument Hitler used when he was pushing Europe around.
(as it was during the Russian Empire).
***Who the hell cares what things were like under their former empire? You gonna go out of your way to restore the British Empire? The Aztec Empire? The Roman Empire? It’s a gigantic pile of bullshiite.
He’s also not trying to bring back the Soviet Union because he’s not a Communist (which some idiots think he is).
***He’s just a standard Russian Empirialist, like Peter or Catherine or Stalin or Lenin or whom-the-frack-ever.
YOU may not WANT it, but the end result of your argument means you (and I, and everyone else) WILL get it.
"***No it isn’t. The parallels are striking."
Only if you swallow pro-WW3 globalist media lies.
"***He sure is pushin’ hard against it, threatening NATO and all those former soviet slave states."
NATO shouldn't exist anymore. It was relevant until the Soviet Union fell and then it should've been deactivated 30 years ago. Why does this international military bureaucracy still exist ?
"***How is [presumably] Zelenskyy begging for nuke holocaust? This is hyperbole of the highest order."
Have you heard anything from this nutjob ? He's begging us to support his corrupt nation (a Soros puppet !) intercede even if it means triggering a nuclear war. Every death in Ukraine is on his hands (and that of his puppetmaster). Utterly and completely preventable.
"***shouldn’t? More hyperbole. Look at that Budapest Agreement where we basically not only say it SHOULD exist but we ASSURE its borders, sovereignty, its existence."
Yup, I said shouldn't. And why is it that Ukraine's boundaries (which were fixed by the Soviets and not by any pre-Soviet historical means, a la the Baltics) are sacrosanct, yet the American borders, flooded in by millions of illegals, are NOT ? How 'bout we do something about something that is imperative and relevant to us as a nation instead of a pseudo-nation on another effing continent ?
"***Same exact argument Hitler used when he was pushing Europe around."
One could say Hitler had the right to try to pursue restoring the pre-WW1 German Empire boundaries, but we both know he wanted far more that did not belong to Germany at any time in the past. When Putin invades France so his Russian soldiers can march in the shade of the trees along the Champs-Élysées, you can declare yourself the winner of this argument.
"Who the hell cares what things were like under their former empire? You gonna go out of your way to restore the British Empire? The Aztec Empire? The Roman Empire? It’s a gigantic pile of bullshiite."
Because those were the true Russian boundaries. The discussion here was trying to figure out Putin's goal. Restoring its original boundaries (or most of it) has been his apparent goal. As for the British Empire, it's actual boundaries really never left the British Isles (save for a few times it tried with bits of France). The rest of the world under its aegis was never really "Britain", even if it was considered part of its empire. You may have been a British subject living in India, but Indians were never British. Conversely, Eastern Ukraine is largely Russian.
"***He’s just a standard Russian Empirialist, like Peter or Catherine or Stalin or Lenin or whom-the-frack-ever."
Imperialist, not "Empirialist." He's an authoritarian, to be sure. He wants a strong Russia. He loves his country. He deplores today's sick, degenerate, and corrupt Western values (ironically, which were undermined by the Soviets to destabilize and destroy Western Europe and the U.S., which has succeeded in the long run). I wish we had leaders in these places who loved their nations and didn't regard patriotism and nationalism as an epithet. Globalism, conversely, is an unheralded failure and destructive evil, why those forces of darkness are pushing so hard to destroy Putin and Russia.