In assessing the motives and actions of Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton compared them to Adolf Hitler’s. Almost always a mistake.
After 12 years in power, Hitler was dead, having slaughtered millions and conquered Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.
And Putin? After 13 years in power, and facing a crisis in Ukraine, he directed his soldiers in the Crimea to take control of the small peninsula where Russia has berthed its Black Sea fleet since Napoleon.
To the Wall Street Journal this is a “blitzkrieg.”
But as of now, this is a less bloody affair than Andrew Jackson’s acquisition of our Florida peninsula. In 1818, Gen. Jackson was shooting Indians, putting the Spanish on boats to Cuba and hanging Brits. And we Americans loved it.
Still, there are parallels between what motivates Putin, a Russian nationalist, and what motivated the Austrian corporal. Hitler’s war began in blazing resentment at what was done to Germany after Nov. 11, 1918.
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When are TPTB, in Mordor on the Potomac ever going to get a clue that THE foreign Policy the we could have is to mind our own damn business and leave other countries the hell alone. The other countries around the world do NOT want to be just like us.
ReplyDeleteOn the domestic front, the best words of wisdom came from radio commentator, Paul Harvey who would occasionally remark: Self government without self discipline will NOT work.
Question: Does anyone with an IQ greater than room temp, take the Wall Street Journal seriously? As I see it, it is good for lining the bottom of bird cages and wrapping fish in.
leave other countries the hell alone.
DeleteYes, a novel idea I know. :)
''All we ask is to be left alone.''
--Jefferson Davis