Putin said “no more wars if you respect us.” Criminologists have a name for this formula.
Criminologists call it "neutralization." Hitler used it at the Reichstag in 1939. We caught Putin using it in 2015. He's still at it.
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Russian FM Lavrov revives Hitler and Napoleon to sell endless war to Russians
Lavrov claimed that Germany, France, and others are reviving Nazism through their backing of Ukraine during Russia's invasion, ISW reported.
Europe’s opera houses build bridges to Putin’s elite—with your tax money
From London to Zürich, Anna Netrebko’s return exposes how cultural institutions bankroll moral blindness.
Ukrainian foreign minister warns West against appeasing Russia as Kyiv marks WWII anniversary
Avoiding difficult decisions and favoring weakness over strength allowed evil to grow stronger in 1939, he said.
Russia’s victory in World War II wasn’t just Russia’s, says Ukrainian historian
He warns that Moscow deliberately obscures Ukraine's tremendous WWII sacrifices to monopolize victimhood and justify today's invasion.
France and UK face historic choice as Trump signals Ukraine abandonment
As America retreats from Ukraine, Europe's nuclear powers stand at a crossroads. France and Britain's decision could determine whether Ukraine faces Russia alone or benefits from the same nuclear deterrence that maintained peace during the Cold War.
Polish PM in Munich: “Never again” to appeasement of aggressor as Trump pushes quick peace deal between Ukraine and Russia
His warning comes as US officials push for peace talks while excluding European allies. European leaders prepare for an emergency Paris summit to discuss their response to Trump's Russia negotiations.
Why Ukraine can’t just “make peace”: top historian explains what the West gets wrong about peace with Russia
While the West calls for Ukraine’s concessions to Russia, historian Yaroslav Hrytsak warns of what's really at stake a nation’s last chance to break free from centuries of imperial bloodshed.
100+ officials, experts warn of 1938 Munich-like betrayal of Ukraine as US votes
107 former and serving Western diplomats, politicians, military and intel chiefs appeal for a coalition of willing NATO nations to boost support to Kyiv.
Bloomberg: German Defense Chief Pistorius compares Putin to Hitler
At a book event on Winston Churchill, German Defense Minister Pistorius draws parallels between Russian President Putin's war in Ukraine and Adolf Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovak territory, urging Europe to prepare for the possibility of a major Russian attack.
From Anschluss to Invasion: Putin follows Hitler’s playbook
Despite the lessons of appeasing Hitler before WWII, world leaders have again failed to deter authoritarian aggression from Russia
Putin using Kaliningrad exactly the way Hitler did when it was called East Prussia, Skobov says
In the late 1930s, Hitler demanded the opening of “a Polish corridor” to Germany’s East Prussia , triggering…
Western policies of appeasement produced a monster… again
The West did not stop Hitler in 1938 In 1938, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army seized a…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
80 years ago Stalin deported German anti-fascist, communist, Jewish refugees to Hitler
The pact with Stalin made it possible for Germany to unleash a military attack on Poland just one…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 3: The way to European catastrophe
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler's Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so…
Hitler’s anschluss and Putin’s: Similarities and differences
Seventy-nine years ago today, Adolf Hitler issued the law on the unification of Austria and Germany, an event…
Trump and Ukraine: ‘a small country far away about which we know little’?
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s dismissal of Czechoslovakia as an artificial country created at Versailles and one that…