Five Reasons Why Putin Is The Hitler Of The Modern World

Are we ignoring the lessons of history?

In September 1938, leaders from Germany, France, Italy and the UK met in Munich to discuss Germany’s demands for the Sudetenland, a province of northern Czechoslovakia at the time that bordered Germany.

We now know that Germany wanted to expand its territory, and the Sudetenland would help secure control of key military sites in the region. Once in control of these sites, invading the rest of Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere, would be much easier.

Germany justified its demands to the allies by asserting that the people of the Sudetenland were “ethnically German”, arguing that annexation would rightly return the people to their homeland.

In just one day an agreement was reached. On September 30th, 1938, the Sudetenland was annexed under an agreement known as the Munich Pact.

The Czechoslovakian People and Government were excluded. They were not even invited to discussions about their territory, their future. The democratic government of Czechoslovakia at the time resigned as a result.

The Allies bowed to a Dictator who exhibited an appetite to grab land illegally.

Fast-Forward 76 Years

Almost 8 decades later the most audacious land-grab in Europe since World War II happened in 2014 when Moscow seized Crimea, arguably setting in motion the events that we witnessed this week.

The inaction by NATO and Western Allies caused as much damage to Europe’s post-Cold War security order as the aggressor.

The nations imposing delayed sanctions, after the fact, are in fact enablers, as they were in 1938.

Inaction is apathy that masks collusion

The Modern Fuhrer

Irish Politician, Leo Varadkar, this week branded the Russian president Vladimir Putin as “the Hitler of the 21st century”.

I tend to agree, here’s why:

№1 — Early Indicators

A Dictatorial leader that executes a land grab under false or fabricated pretense often unmasks an insatiable appetite. History has shown us that land is the drug of choice for any Dictator.

Like Hitler, Putin has shown the world that foreign land is part of his strategy. He did it in 2008 (Georgia), and 2014 (Ukraine), and will not stop until he has amassed more than Hitler of Stalin.

№2—Denial, Smoke and Mirrors

Just like Hitler’s manipulation of Western Ally leaders in 1938, during his grab of the Sudetenland, Putin has spun his own distorted version of reality to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

His claim that he’s striving “for the demilitarization and denazification” of the sovereign democracy in the Ukraine echoes the Nazi-narrative spewed by Hitler decades earlier.

While the Allies actively supported Hitler in 1938, in 2014 and 2022 the response has been impotent at best. Delayed economic sanctions, that will take time to have an impact, comes with a price — the cost? — the lives of innocent people in Ukraine.

№3 — Power Drunk

Putin, a former low-level spy, was well equipped to employ a system of misinformation and cronyism to gain and retain power since he returned to Russia in 1990. A dark-skill that has enabled his ability to solidify his control of a Global powerhouse for decades.

The evidence is that Mr. Putin is dangerously drunk on power, a potent megalomania personality that’s become more ruthless and reckless of late.

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish. Fact. He said that his Grandfather survived WW2, but three of his grandfather’s brothers were killed by Nazi occupiers during the war.

This hasn’t deterred Putin’s Russian conies from taring Zelenskyy and his democratically appointed ministers as descendants of those who collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. An insane contradiction of a madman.

Today, 25th February 2022, President Zelenskyy was quoted on social media:

This might be the last time you see me alive.

Remember these words.

If Putin actually believes that others will buy into his absurd rhetoric is a clear indicator that the Russian leader is an intoxicated power-addict.

№4 — Oppress Opposition

Since Putin took control of the Russian state in the late 1990s he has consistently stamped out opposition. His ability to silence those he perceives as a threat is on a par with Hitler’s SS.

Just this week 1,000s of Russian protestors have been jailed for the crime of “free-speech”.

Fortunately, writers and journalists have shone a light on the solidarity of unwavering support that protestors are extending to the Ukraine:

1. Manchester United ended their sponsorship deal with the Russian airline, Aeroflot
2. UEFA have stripped the Saint Petersburg, Putin’s home city, of the Champions league final in May
3. Formula 1 have cancelled the Russian stage of this years event due to be held in Sochi in September
4. Russian Tennis player, Andrey Rublev, wrote “No War Please” on a camera lens after his win in Dubai this week
5. Over 150 senior Russian officials signed an open letter condemning Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Oppression is a tactic that all dictators revert to. Its a strategy of desperation. An approach that Hitler adopted from 1933 onwards. 12 years later Hitler unceremoniously died at his own hand.

80 million lives were lost during WW2, a tragedy that I believe was born and could have been arrested in 1938.

№5 — Megalomaniac Traits

Here are nine traits that most Dictators exhibit:

1. Narcissistic — Idealize an often nurture a false self-image
2. Presumptuous — They believe that they are essential
3. Feeling of being indestructible — They believe that they are capable of solving absolutely everything, or any problem that unfolds
4. Manipulative — A trait used to get and hold on to positions of power
5. Bravado — They test others, mostly subordinates, to show others, a hand picked audience of yes-men, that they’re better than everyone
6. Ignore mistakes — They never learn
7. Hyper sensitive to others — If people reject them, they see those as the problem and not themselves
8. Vanity— Intoxicated by an out of control ego that reinforces a sense, an intense feeling rather, of superiority
9. Delusional — They ignore logic and over time surround themselves with minions who will never question their insanity

The megalomania of Dictators is often fueled by supporters who fear them, people who are terrified of losing money and/or power themselves, so ignore their own better judgement to retain material falsehoods despite the carnage that’s unfolding around them.

Like Hitler, Putin is surrounded by henchmen, equivalents like:

Fellow Dictators

• Hitler = Mussolini (Italy)
• Putin = Lukashenko (Belarus)

Power Pawns

• Hitler — Himmler: Leader of the SS
• Putin — Sechin: CEO of Rosneft, Russian Oil Giant
• Note: Ivanov stood down in 2016

Projectile Vomit Merchants (Propaganda)

• Hitler — Goebbels: CVO, Chief Vomit Officer
• Putin — Surkov to Kozak: Although Putin is often his own CVO

That said, there is the possibility that some within the Kremlin will see Putin for what he is and risk everything to de-thrown their rogue leader, just like those in the Third-Reich tried to do in the 1940s.

Courageous Uprisers

• Hitler — Rommel, Von Stauffenberg and others
• Putin — Unknown

Only time will tell.

Final Thoughts

With a population of almost 45 million, the future for the people of the Ukraine is uncertain. As is the future for the 145 million people in Russia.

One man is trying to reinvent, to redefine the world order.

The question for those in the free-world is:

What are you going to do?

Let me remind you of this:

Inaction is apathy that masks collusion.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!