UPDATED: Clinton: It 'Had To Be' Ukraine Separatists Who Shot Down The Plane

[MADem]

93. Everyone is making that comparison because it's an apt one to make--that "historical similarity"

you noted is there, and people trying to ignore it or pretend it isn't there are whistling in the dark. We haven't seen land-grabbing on a massive scale in that region since a certain mustachioed asswipe went looking for "living room." No one is saying that he's the whole "Hitler" package, but they are saying that he's doing the same thing when it comes to acquiring territory that a certain hyperbolic Austrian did. It's really not a "Godwin" reference in that context!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/22/us-ukraine-crisis-lithuania-idUSKBN0EX0KY20140622

Asked whether such comparisons to Hitler or Stalin went too far, Dalia Grybauskaite told German news magazine Focus on Sunday: &quot Putin) uses nationality as a pretext to conquer territory with military means. That's exactly what Stalin and Hitler did. Such comparisons are spot on."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698917/It-time-stop-appeasing-Putin-resolve-Cameron-Hammond-warns-EU-veiled-dig-Merkel.html

Mr Cameron accused the EU showing a lack of 'resolve' in refusing to face up to Russia and suggested the world was now paying the price. Mr Cameron also likened the crisis to Europe's appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/18/it-s-finally-time-for-the-west-to-stand-up-to-putin.html

In March, after Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula—which Putin justified using the same rationale Adolf Hitler did of his subjugation of Czechoslovakia—world leaders loudly protested and slapped sanctions on a handful of Russian officials.