German finance minister Schäuble says "Putin's Crimea plans reminiscent of Hitler" - Polidicks

[img]http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-677504-breitwandaufmacher-ywbp.jpg[/img] [I]German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble[/I] - "now that's how you fuck with people" [quote=spiegal online] As Germany's Mr. Euro, Wolfgang Schäuble is one of the country's best-known politicians abroad. When the finance minister speaks, people generally tend to listen. But on Monday morning, public statements at his ministry raised eyebrows. Schäuble made statements drawing parallels between the politics of Adolf Hitler and Russian President Vladimir Putin. ANZEIGE Schäuble said Russia's actions in Ukraine [B]remind him of the expansionism of Nazi Germany. "Hitler already adopted such methods in Sudetenland," Schäuble said at a public event at the Finance Ministry in Berlin on Monday morning.[/B] "That's something that we all know from history." Schäuble's comments were directed at the justification provided by the Russians for annexing Crimea. Russian officials claim ethnic Russian residents of the peninsula are threatened by Ukraine. [B]The Nazis argued similarly in the 1938 that "ethnic Germans" in peripheral regions of what was then Czechoslovakia required protection.[/B] Given stewing tensions between Russia and the West and the finance minister's political prominence in Europe, Schäuble's comments could further intensify discord. The finance minister made the comments while speaking to 50 school children from Berlin participating in a government-organized EU Project Day. Schäuble answered children's' questions about European unity and the euro crisis. He made his remarks after a student asked if the Ukraine crisis could potentially intensify the euro zone's problems.[/quote] [url="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/schaeuble-compares-putin-moves-in-crimea-to-policies-of-hitler-a-961696.html"]Check out the rest in the Source[/url]

Apparently Putin broke the godwin's law pipe

Let's be honest, we were all thinking it (except the pro-Putin side, maybe). I wonder if there's a loophole in Godwin's Law with Germans similar to the acceptability of saying variants of "nigger" depending on if you're black or not. :v:

Well perhaps if Schäuble were able to provide a final solution to this crisis things wouldn't be so bad.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;44412151]Well perhaps if Schäuble were able to provide a final solution to this crisis things wouldn't be so bad.[/QUOTE] Well. [quote]He said the finance ministers of these countries have told him personally that they planned to expand their military expenditures.[/quote] Sounds like a start to a fine ole solution to me.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;44412149]Let's be honest, we were all thinking it (except the pro-Putin side, maybe). I wonder if there's a loophole in Godwin's Law with Germans similar to the acceptability of saying variants of "nigger" depending on if you're black or not. :v:[/QUOTE] We just tend to have a ton of education on the topic, which is why Germans often can more easily do sound Hitler comparisons. It's not something you'd bring up casually.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;44412149]Let's be honest, we were all thinking it (except the pro-Putin side, maybe). I wonder if there's a loophole in Godwin's Law with Germans similar to the acceptability of saying variants of "nigger" depending on if you're black or not. :v:[/QUOTE] Indeed in Germany, likening your political enemies to the Nazis is a highly effective tactic. Godwin's Law does not apply here.

A polish friend of mine got a letter todat saying he might be called to duty :( We say that if we dont learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it and yet we continue anyway.

[QUOTE=James xX;44413596]A polish friend of mine got a letter todat saying he might be called to duty :( We say that if we dont learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it and yet we continue anyway.[/QUOTE] Well shit

[QUOTE=James xX;44413596]A polish friend of mine got a letter todat saying he might be called to duty :([/QUOTE] Bullshit, I didn't get anything.