Putin likens Ukraine's forces to Nazis and threatens standoff in the Arctic

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/putin-ukraine-forces-nazis-arctic
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has hit back at accusations that he has effectively invaded Ukraine, accusing Ukrainian forces of behaving like Nazis in the conflict in the east and ominously threatening to take his standoff with the west into the disputed Arctic.

Hours after Barack Obama accused Russia of sending troops into Ukraine and fuelling an upsurge in the separatist war, Putin retorted that the Ukrainian army was the villain of the piece, targeting residential areas of towns and cities like German troops did in the former Soviet Union.

He added that Russians and Ukrainians "are practically one people", reprising a theme of an earlier statement in which he referred to the disputed areas of south-eastern Ukraine as Novorossiya – a throwback to tsarist times when the area was ruled from Moscow.

And he made a pointed reference to the Arctic, which with its bounteous energy reserves and thawing waterways is emerging as a new potential conflict between Russia and its western rivals. "Our interests are concentrated in the Arctic. And of course we should pay more attention to issues of development of the Arctic and the strengthening of our position," Putin told a youth camp outside Moscow.

[snooper2]

1. Pootie has been playing online to much, he went Nazi LOL

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Godwin's law goes geo-political.

Probably the creepiest stuff we've heard from Putin to date.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Bizarre

Canada will not allow that to happen!

[TwilightGardener]

4. He's losing his mind.

[librechik]

5. on one side the Nazis, on the other, the Russians--who do we help?

athanks for making our decision easier, Putin. You can both go straight to hell.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Given that the "Nazi" argument is a trumped up canard...nt

[GeorgeGist]

7. Putin needs to go.

[VanGoghRocks]

9. Unfortunately, Putin has an 88% domestic approval rating. Now if we could figure

out a way to whittle that down to an Obama-sized 39%, why then your proposal might have some merit.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Well, he CAN see us from his house, obviously.

I bet he's sorry now that they sold Alaska to the US back in 1867.