C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“The attack, which even in its first few hours has taken a devastating toll on Ukraine and its people, also will be seen as a turning point in the careers of those who supported Vladimir Putin—from the oligarchs now scrambling to keep their superyachts from being seized to cynical America political leaders who have since 2016 offered a chorus celebrating and defending the Russian president.
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Now, [Putin] is mentioned in the same breath as the last man to shatter the peace of Europe, Adolf Hitler. Putin, again, even aided in this analogy when he used the same lies to justify his invasion of Ukraine that Hitler had used to justify entering the Sudetenland in 1938. (Hitler lied that Sudeten Germans were being persecuted by the Czechs, Putin said the same of Russians in Ukraine.)”
And those cynical Republican politicians who celebrated and defended Putin – who continue to defend Putin – are just as culpable.
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Now, [Putin] is mentioned in the same breath as the last man to shatter the peace of Europe, Adolf Hitler. Putin, again, even aided in this analogy when he used the same lies to justify his invasion of Ukraine that Hitler had used to justify entering the Sudetenland in 1938. (Hitler lied that Sudeten Germans were being persecuted by the Czechs, Putin said the same of Russians in Ukraine.)”
Ukraine Invasion by Russia Is the Beginning of the End for Putin and His Friends
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFive a.m. local time in Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, the moment the Russian military launched its unprovoked, indefensible full-scale invasion of the largest country in Europe, marked the beginning of the end for Vladimir...
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And those cynical Republican politicians who celebrated and defended Putin – who continue to defend Putin – are just as culpable.