| BFR said: IMO, Putin is the Hitler of the 21st Century. Let that sink in. And let time decide the final judgment. |
I know what you’re getting at, but I wouldn’t say Hitler because of the smaller scale and lower ability to inflict his evil on people… maybe he’s a Mussolini. While Hitler/Nazi is an insult to normal people, Putin’s supporters in the West revere Hitler; and, even if Putin supporters claim to hate Hitler, they respect him for the catastrophe he caused and so drastically changing the course of history by killing so many people and destroying so much of civilization. With that in mind, comparisons between Putin and Hitler is giving Putin too much credit.
Using more recent figures, Putin is more of an East European Gaddafi crossed with Saddam than Hitler.
Side-note: Hitler orchestrated attacks that did significantly more damage to Ukraine and its people than Russia did and devastated half of Europe on top of that and carried out one of the largest genocides in history. In fact, Russia (multiple times in history) has done more damage to Ukraine in the past than Putin.
So, Putin is still evil, still a mass murderer, still invading countries, and still orchestrates political assassinations (Saddam was assassinating opponents in the UK as well). Maybe Putin will have a similar end to Saddam or Gaddafi.
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