Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Richelieu...
has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...'s recent steps in Ukraine to aggression by Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
in 1930s Nazi Germany, a local paper reported.
To me, it looks a lot more like Hungary in 1956, or Dubček's Czechoslovakia.
| Yes, but you know what a háček is, and how to use it. Clearly you oughtn't be trusted. |
Or perhaps we might look at events leading up to the Crimean War in 1853. But that's probably too far back in a world where memories end sometime in 1943.
The Long Beach Press Telegram which reported the story said Clinton noted that Putin has sought to provide Russian passports to people in Ukraine with ties to Russia.
Kinda like, you know, Russia protecting Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule...
In the aftermath of the ouster of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych, Kiev's new authorities have accused Putin of inflaming tensions by sending troops into the Crimea, a majority-Russian peninsula in Ukraine.
Russia destroyed the Ottoman fleet at Sinope...
"Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the 30s," the Press Telegram quoted Clinton as telling attendees at a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Long Beach, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
Tell 'em what happened in 1854, Hillary!
"The ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. 'I must go and protect my people,' and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous," she added.
The Orthodox Christians who were groaning under the Ottoman yoke, were a pet concern of the Tsars.
Clinton is a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, and she has generally shied away from much detailed public discussion of foreign policy since leaving the State Department early last year.
She's afraid somebody's going to say "Benghazi."
Her comments could be seen as offsetting her role in President Barack Obama's
...I am not a dictator!
much-publicized move to "reset" relations with Moscow in 2009 when she was chief US diplomat.
Tell 'em about the Confederation of Independent States in 1992, Hill...
With pro-Kremlin forces seizing control of the strategic Crimea, Clinton said Putin "believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness," in part by reasserting dominance over former Soviet states.
Perhaps he could start with Chechnya? Or Dagestan?
Clinton spoke of the hopes for a negotiation that will reduce tensions in what has become Europe's worst security crisis since the end of the Cold War.