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Nuclear Unicorn

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20. Now that you mention it --

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #10)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 05:36 PM

Mar 2014

Are there any ideological insights on Putin? Does anybody know what this guy does or does not believe in matters bigger than himself? Is he the sole center of his entire universe?

Honest question.

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The good thing is that Putin is not the raving, insane madman that Hitler was. [View all] Nye Bevan Mar 2014 OP

It's a stepped response, I agree. This is going to be a long game, at least until TwilightGardener Mar 2014 #1

He's Brezhnev, not Hitler. And, if you don't think Stalin would have stabbed Hitler in the geek tragedy Mar 2014 #2

exactly. stalin sits idly by while hitler commits all his troops to the west? hardly. unblock Mar 2014 #3

and, Hitler leaves his eastern flank exposed to Stalin? nope nt geek tragedy Mar 2014 #9

ok, my one-liner was a simplification. unblock Mar 2014 #19

He's just a rather typical politician showing he's "tough". Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2014 #4

That's adorable. Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #15

While Hitler ended up as a raving insane madman... I don't think he started out that way MNBrewer Mar 2014 #5

"Mein Kampf" is the ravings of a lunatic (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2014 #10

I haven't read it MNBrewer Mar 2014 #16

Now that you mention it -- Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2014 #20

Why does everyone always bring up Godwin's Law on the internet? Vashta Nerada Mar 2014 #6

It's because there are too many people who don't know when they've lost the argument. reformist2 Mar 2014 #8

Godwin's law doesn't indicate that the person who mentions Nazis first loses. MNBrewer Mar 2014 #18

Oh please. An authoritarian leader of a diminished former superpower starts to grab back land Nye Bevan Mar 2014 #11

Crimea practically ran into Russia's arms. reformist2 Mar 2014 #7

In the plebiscite that followed it, 99.7% of Austrians approved of the Anschluss. Nye Bevan Mar 2014 #12

The Von Trapps only made up .3% of the population, I guess... n/t Benton D Struckcheon Mar 2014 #17

Crimea was depopulated of the indigenous Muslims at the point of a gun by the USSR Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #14

Thank-you. Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2014 #21

Yes, he's a Saint. tavernier Mar 2014 #13