Perhaps Drudge is just echoing what many Freepers and others have been claiming for some time now....
This could very well be how it all starts.
Maybe so - maybe no. Just don’t shoot the messenger.
>> This could very well be how it all starts. <<
Yeah, the comparisons to WWII are ridiculous. OK, so Putin is creating a larger Russia for Russophones, like Germany created a larger Germany for Germanophones. But by 1933, when Hitler siezed the Sudetenland, Hitler was already calling for the extinction of Jews, building concentration camps, etc.
Even IF Putin wanted Kiev, or Poland, or Sweden, or whatever, he’s not foolish enough to think he could effectively govern them. He knows he’d weaken Russia, not strengthen it.