[Paleo Conservative]

Hitler set out on a worldwide crusade against Bolshevism, winning large numbers of followers from foreign countries along the way. It appears Putin’s worldwide crusade will be against Nazism - first in Ukraine, then elsewhere, if Ukraine proves to be a success.

I disagree! International socialism never worked as a viable political economic system. Putin is really the successor to Hitler. He offers toxic hyper nationalism, military aggression, and authoritarianism with personal loyalty to himself. The biggest weakness is there can be no heir apparent to Putin. Anyone who appears to be the heir is considered a threat to Putin and to the people who owe their wealth and positions to Putin.

[Paleo Conservative]

Also Xi Jinping offers hyper Han Chinese nationalism as a substitute for Communism. The Communist party is still in charge, but they no longer advocate state ownership of the means of production.

[Zhang Fei]

[Putin is really the successor to Hitler. He offers toxic hyper nationalism, military aggression, and authoritarianism with personal loyalty to himself. ]

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My guess is that these were all fig leaves - you can’t very well say you want masses of people to fight wars on your behalf so you can join Alexander in the ranks of the immortals, historically-speaking. So the cause has got to be something that captures the zeitgeist. In the 1930’s, that was anti-Bolshevism. Today, maybe Putin can recapture some of the magic, that caused millions of Germans and a number of other nationalities to risk it all on the nominal anti-Bolshevik struggle, with his anti-Nazi crusade.

[Nifster]

Well said