I repeat: Putin is trying to follow in Stalin’s “footsteps”, rather than Hitler’s. Stalin, too, committed genocide on a grand scale, but our “history” books tend to ignore that, because he didn’t declare war against us, but also attacked Hitler. And we rewarded him by formally allowing him to enslave all of Eastern Europe.
And that last is part of Putin’s “justification” for his current actions. How dare we rescind that permission!
I repeat: Putin is trying to follow in Stalin’s “footsteps”, rather than Hitler’s. Stalin, too, committed genocide on a grand scale, but our “history” books tend to ignore that, because he didn’t declare war against us, but also attacked Hitler. And we rewarded him by formally allowing him to enslave all of Eastern Europe.
And that last is part of Putin’s “justification” for his current actions. How dare we rescind that permission!