Is Vladimir Putin the new Hitler? I know that every time
something seems especially evil in the world, we tend couch it in the most
hated terms of all terms, which is NAZI. But what if we are right? If I were President Obama,
I would assembly a team of historians and psychologists and diplomats and
really look at this possibility with the idea of deciding what or how we could
we have avoided the Second World War, to learn from history.
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Seriously, I would like to see at least one professional historian
go over available information and see if there is something to learn from
history as it relates to Putin. I see a punk kid from the streets of Saint Petersburg
in shoes that are too big for him. I have read a few books about him and sense
evil in him but really do not feel I know his mind. In addition, I grew up in an
era when Adolf Hitler, an army corporal, was in powerful shoes that just did
not fit: it gave an awkward appearance then as it does now with Putin. I think
I saw, in the state of Germany at the time of Hitler’s rise to power, what we now
see in Russia. The people in both countries seemed disheartened by world economic
events; the post war collapse of Germany and the post communism collapse of USSR
with the rise in power of oligarchy and diminution of the power of the people
setting the stage for a rise of a “charismatic” leader. I see the first sparks of
that leader creating or building a fictitious “internal” enemy by the anti-Semitism
in Crimea with the registration of Jews. I see Angela Markel (Germany) and David
Cameron (England) playing the economic gains of supporting Russia for economic
security at the risk of their territorial security and the United States paralyzed
by war wariness. What sane person would risk a world war over the natural gas supply
to Germany? What sane person would go to war to prevent war? The architect of
this mess is the person Rudy Giuliani thinks is a real leader. I think the real
leader is Obama, the man who will guide us out of this swamp.
I see Putin using flag waving patriotism as Hitler did to unite
people behind flimsy excuses for expanding territorial claims to “restore their
nations to greatness”. I see Putin taking advantage of the interior location of
the trouble spots “he created” for purpose of building his personal reputation
in his “fatherland”. He is threatening the 12 trillion dollar economy of the EU
and the 15 trillion dollar economy of the United States with his 2 trillion
dollar economy. It is illogical, even boarding on the insane. I see the greedy
oil executives thumbing their nose at the United States where they control the
congress, while catering to Putin to protect their profits and to allow them to
drill in the Arctic, etc. Obama is going to have to guide us to a peaceful
resolution without Markel, Cameron, Boehner, McConnell, and the war wary people
of the Untied States; he has to guide us out of this black hole alone. I stand
with Obama and a historian or two.
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