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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Considering Ukrainians are only the 9th largest ethnic group in Canada, taking credit for half is probably a stretch, dont ya think? 😉
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She is obviously including ethnic Germans from what is now Ukraine like my family who were in Manitoba for a while. 😎
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Was Odessa, Ontario built by Ukrainians?
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Here’s how Ameican leftists are to blame.
What role has the American intellectual community played in this saga, if any? Certainly we failed to prevent it. But there is more. For the past two years, since Putin re-assigned himself to the Russian presidency, we have indulged ourselves in a bacchanalia of anti-Putinism, shading over into anti-Russianism. We turned Pussy Riot into mass media stars. We wrote endless articles (and books) about how Putin was a mystery man, a terrible man, a KGB ghoul who lived under your bed. It got to the point where, arriving in Sochi for Putin’s overpriced Olympics, Western journalists were greeted like heroes for tweeting about how the curtains in their hotel rooms were falling down. It was funny, but it was also not funny. Should Putin, the president of a country with inadequate hospitals, schools, and housing for its 150-million population, have spent $50 billion on hosting the Olympics? Absolutely not—especially when a third of the money was apparently expropriated by various officials. But the gleeful complaints about Olympic conditions seemed mostly bent on humiliating Russia in toto.
http://nplusonemag.com/ukraine-putin-and-the-west
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Good thing I am not a leftist. But, this makes little sense. The recent events in Ukraine including Crimea have almost nothing to do with the anything in the US.
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🙂
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“The recent events in Ukraine including Crimea have almost nothing to do with the anything in the US.”
– YES. Thank you for saying this. I’m so tired of the recent wave of fresh “this is just likes”.
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“But the gleeful complaints about Olympic conditions seemed mostly bent on humiliating Russia in toto.”
– Ah, so now the story is that Russia invaded Ukraine because Americans hurt Putin’s feelings by joking about the toilets in Sochi. The man must be even more fragile than we thought.
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Jokes aside, the problem with this narrative is that Putin’s invasion was very obviously planned long before the stories about Sochi.
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Why, why, why, did Americans not have the foresight to “check their privilege”? Now you can see what happens when one makes a misjudgement. Whole countries get invaded.
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“Why, why, why, did Americans not have the foresight to “check their privilege”? Now you can see what happens when one makes a misjudgement. Whole countries get invaded.”
– They so should have put trigger warnings alongside every toilet joke about Russia’s Olympics. Shit, what an oversight!
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The should have just kept their crap to themselves.
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I am tired of tedious generalizations about my country.
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Cacanada doesn’t support Ukraine. They support Europe.
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