Vladomir Putin's pronouncements that he will "protect" Russian speakers - up to and including unilateral annexation - is so reminiscent of Adolf "most evil human ever" Hitler's policy in the 1930's that frankly, I am flabergasted that this is not a main meme in general news coverage.
If other nations adopted this stance it would mean almost endless war. (Fuck you, Vlad).
Just in Europe, several nations have German or French as an official language.
And what of Asia; Tamils in Sri Lanka, Chinese in Singapore, Arabic and Azeri and Kurdish in Iran - Baluchi too, just like across the border in Pakistan. There are so many other countries I could mention that I won't bother.
Does Vlad think Spain should reconqueor South America? Of course not.... his "logic" is designed only to help himself. The greedy little tyrant doesn't really believe what he says. It's just a bunch of excuses. In that sense he is both better and worse than Hitler.
Africa would be even worse... arbitrary colonial borders do not respect linguistics.
So if Vlad has his Fascist way, the logical result is almost endless fighting.
Nice one, asshole.
I'm trying not to puke at and about the apologists, so I might not comment a lot.