Ukraine, Canada, and Tyranny in Our Time
If history has a right side, Leftists aren't on it.
If history has a right side, Leftists aren’t on it.
Today my wife and I drove home from the breakaway State of Jefferson and listened to BBC Radio as they broadcasted Vladimir Putin telling the world that the breakaway state of Ukraine is an “inherent part” of Russia’s “history, culture, spiritual space.”
“Since ancient times, people from ancient southwestern Russian lands were calling themselves Russians,” Putin offered as a justification for invasion. “The modern Ukraine was completely created by Russia, to be more exact, by Bolshevik Communist Russia. This process has started almost immediately after the 1917 revolution.”
My immediate reaction right there in the car was that Putin sounded like Hitler claiming the Sudetenland for Nazi Germany in 1938, and that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are Neville Chamberlain.
I’m not the only one making such a connection, obviously. Even Geraldo Rivera gets it. So does former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman. And in 2014, Germany’s finance minister said Putin’s annexation of Crimea — on Barack Obama’s watch — was reminiscent Adolf Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland.
The political Left loves to talk about “our democracy,” but what they have done is to embolden autocratic regimes the world over while labeling their domestic detractors as fascists.
The President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada have both called their political opponents Nazis even as they seize bank accounts and take political prisoners with the same legal justifications used by tyrants.
Joe Biden said Republicans are like Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. “They’re part of the big lie. The big lie,” Biden said about senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. “Goebbels and the great lie.”
Justin Trudeau told a Conservative Jewish MP she is “standing with people who wave swastikas.”
The Biden and Trudeau regimes are extending decrees of national emergency that allow them to wield the powers of a dictator, and using charges of fascism as a pretext to crack down on civil liberties.
“Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism,” writes Glenn Greenwald today. “What is most notable, though, is that this alleged criminality is not adjudicated through judicial proceedings — with all the accompanying protections of judges, juries, rules of evidence and requirements of due process — but simply by decree.”
I never thought it would come to this, but I’m going to quote Naomi Wolf, a third-wave feminist who — among other things — advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
“Justin Trudeau is by definition now in fact a dictator,” Wolf wrote a few days ago. “At this stage in history, you do not go back to a previous state of civil society order without arrests, though hopefully you can do so without civil war. Historically, when a would-be dictator has reached this point in the suspension of democratic processes and has sought this level of a power grab, his arrests of the opposition’s leaders, on trumped-up charges, come next. Also arrested at this point are labor leaders, outspoken members of the clergy, and independent journalists and editors.”
On Feb. 11, Biden “expressed his concern that U.S. companies and workers are experiencing serious effects, including slowdowns in production, shortened work hours, and plant closures,” the White House said in a statement about the Canadian trucker protest.
Trudeau told Biden he would take “quick action in enforcing the law,” the White House added.
Amidst unprecedented warnings of tyranny from the Left and the Right, President Biden will deliver his first State of the Union speech on March 1, 2022.
