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March 20, 2014
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If Vlad is going to run around exposing his pecs all the time, I'd prefer it if he lost a little weight.
Posted by: ahem at March 20, 2014 9:52 PM
I didn't know Crimea wasn't already part of Russia until this latest altercation. I strongly suspect I'm part of the 99% on this.
Posted by: BillH at March 21, 2014 7:52 AM
Without going all Godwin, these are exactly the kind of arguments used by Hitler for taking sections of the nearby nations like the Sudetenland and Danzig Corridor. The ethnic peoples are German, its historically German, its in the hearts and minds of the people there. Sometimes he even had reasonably solid historical basis for these claims.
Its not that I'm drawing parallels between Putin and Hitler, they aren't the same and while Hitler planned to take over the world, Putin just wants a Russian empire like the old days (and a buffer between Russia and the west).
Its just that his arguments are old, horrid, without merit, and have very unpleasant echoes from the past.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 21, 2014 11:59 AM
Then I wonder why Vlad is increasing his sphere of influence in Latin America.
Objects from the past are closer than they appear.
Posted by: ahem at March 21, 2014 1:39 PM
Then I wonder why Vlad is increasing his sphere of influence in Latin America.
Objects from the past are closer than they appear.
Posted by: ahem at March 21, 2014 2:49 PM
They'll love the Russkis in Latin America. Especially when they get this whole communism thing up and going.
Posted by: Jewel Atkins at March 21, 2014 4:38 PM