At the risk of violating Godwin's Law Putin is evocative of Hitler.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

No. I don't think he wants to murder or enlave non-Russans, just the bat shit crazy world view. And thankfully Hitler didn't have nukes.

[sop]

1. Don't worry, Trump put Godwin's Law to rest.

[sarisataka]

2. Putin has been using Hitler's speeches

Like they were Mad-Libs-

I have only a few statements still to make. I am grateful to Mr Chamberlain for all his efforts. I have assured him that the German people desires nothing else than peace, but I have also told him that I cannot go back behind the limits set to our patience. I have further assured him, and I repeat it here, that when this problem is solved there is for Germany no further territorial problem in Europe.
And I have further assured him that at the moment when Czechoslovakia solves her problems, that means when the Czechs have come to terms with their other minorities, and that peaceably and not through oppression, then I have no further interest in the Czech state. And that is guaranteed to him! We want no Czechs!

But in the same way I desire to state before the German people that with regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans my patience is now at an end! I have made Mr Benes an offer which is nothing but the carrying into effect of what he himself has promised. The decision now lies in his hands: peace or war. He will either accept this offer and now at last give to the Germans their freedom or we will go and fetch this freedom for ourselves.

-1938

[uponit7771]

3. +1, unabashedly too ... he knows what he is saying

[Eugene]

4. As Godwin said about Charlottesville, "By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis."

When fascists engage in homicidal violence or crimes against humanity, the shoe fits.

Putin's bid to "liberate" ethic Russians in unfriendly lands is fascist empire rebuilding, straight out the the 1939 playbook.