{"id":7492,"date":"2022-03-17T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:50:43","slug":"putin-isnt-just-an-autocrat-hes-something-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7492","title":{"rendered":"Putin Isn\u2019t Just an Autocrat. He\u2019s Something Worse."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Putin\u2019s trajectory increasingly resembles that of Hitler. Both men came to power after their countries experienced imperial dismemberment and economic collapse. Both promised to revive their nation\u2019s glory and enjoyed enormous popularity. Both militarized and pursued state capitalism. Both relied on the army and secret police. Both identified their nations with themselves. Both promoted reactionary ideologies that identified one nation \u2014 Jews for Hitler, Ukrainians for Putin \u2014 as the enemy. And both used their national minorities living in neighboring states as pretexts for expansion. Both were also consummate liars and had deranged personalities. In this scheme of things, Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is equivalent to Hitler\u2019s attack on Austria, Czechoslovakia or Poland. And we all know what happened afterward \u2014 a&nbsp;<em>Vernichtungskrieg<\/em>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/03\/14\/lets-call-putin-fascist-autocrat-00016982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/03\/14\/lets-call-putin-fascist-autocrat-00016982<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Putin\u2019s trajectory increasingly resembles that of Hitler. Both men came to power after their countries experienced imperial dismemberment and economic collapse. Both promised to revive their nation\u2019s glory and enjoyed enormous popularity. Both militarized and pursued state capitalism. Both relied on the army and secret police. Both identified their nations with themselves. Both promoted reactionary ideologies that identified one nation \u2014 Jews for Hitler, Ukrainians for Putin \u2014 as the enemy. And both used their national minorities living in neighboring states as pretexts for expansion. Both were also consummate liars and had deranged personalities. In this scheme of things, Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is equivalent to Hitler\u2019s attack on Austria, Czechoslovakia or Poland. And we all know what happened afterward \u2014 a Vernichtungskrieg.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,431,660,316,315,661],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7493,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}