How would DU react to the 1930s and Hitler?

[freshwest]

98. I have to add, that I agree with you, but that Iran has a powerful backer: Russia.

Putin has shown himself to be ruthlesss in response to terrorist attacks from Islamist extremists seeking to leave the federation of autonomous states, I think they call it. It's unlike the USSR, not Communist, more of a oligarchical union than anything else.

That talk about blood or ethnic Russians is not a recent thing. I talked for years with some Russians who see kinship with the people in Iran, Syria, all the former entities of the USSR, yet are not in any way Communist.

They are instead, in favor of Orthodox Christianity being respected, a return to monarchy and empire. But only in the former regions they possessed in the past, because they see them as their people.

Tsarist Russia was an awful lot of land. They consider what we call other nations a Western invention designed to harm Russia. They said that the West had an irrational hatred of Russia.

And they love Putin as the one who might bring that to pass, the glory days of the empire. Which they didn't see as imperialist as much as tradition. I think what we often forget is the centuries of history in Asia that didn't disappear with the UN or whatever.

It goes back much further than that. As far as the religion thing goes, they felt linked to all nations where there are churches. But also they were not anti-Muslim; they said they just wanted them to respect them.

I will probably make an OP on what is being reported to be going on there now that is wrong... I don't think these people would participate in that.

Gotta go and thanks for the reply. And in all the Anglosphere, the Aussies and Americans act the most alike in some ways...