The West is finally picking up on Putin’s old trick of handing out Russian passports to citizens of other countries and then invading said countries on the pretext of “defending” the newly minted Russian citizens. He pulled this trick in Georgia and now is doing the same thing in Ukraine. But, as Hillary Clinton is pointing out, the trick is older than Putin:
Putin has been on a campaign to give Russian passports to anyone who has Russian connections, Clinton said.
The Russian leader has recently done so in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which, Clinton said, is similar to what happened in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Hitler resettled tens of thousands of ethnic Germans who were living in parts of Europe to Nazi Germany.
Clinton made her comments at a private event benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach.
“Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the 30s,” she said. “All the Germans that were … the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they’re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people and that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous.”
José Manuel Durão Barroso the President of the European Commission exhibited a similar concern, saying that this is the first time in a while that the global peace is being threatened in such a blatant way.
In the meanwhile, Canada supports Ukraine. Given that half of Canada was built by Ukrainians, it makes sense.
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