Russian President Vladimir Putin’s“fascistic” government is a repeat of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship, former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a recent speech..“This is the 1930s all over again,” said Harper, speaking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. .“This is essentially a fascistic nationalist government in Russia invading a neighbour with total disregard for any kind of legal framework — international or otherwise — and trying to deny its right to nationhood.”.Harper made the comments on Monday during a panel at the Raisina Dialogue geopolitics conference in New Delhi, as first reported by the National Post. Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and Jane Holl Lute, deputy secretary of Homeland Security under U.S. president Barack Obama, also attended. .Harper said he witnessed “every attempt” to bring Russia into the most senior councils of international alliances during his tenure as prime minister, but Putin “decided he did not want to be that.” .“He decided he would rather be an enemy of freedom and democracy and a rival to the Western world when he had every chance to do it otherwise,” Harper said. . In 2014, Harper inaugurated Operation Unifier, a deployment of roughly 500 Canadian Armed Forces trainers to Ukraine, which was launched under then Defence minister Jason Kenney..Premier Kenney referenced his history with Ukraine last week when Russia imposed a ban on him..“Anyone who is on Vladimir Putin’s blacklist is, I think, on the right side of history,” Kenney said..“My only question is: What took you so long?”.Rachel Emmanuel is the Edmonton Bureau Chief for the Western Standard.remmanuel@westernstandard.news
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s“fascistic” government is a repeat of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship, former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a recent speech..“This is the 1930s all over again,” said Harper, speaking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. .“This is essentially a fascistic nationalist government in Russia invading a neighbour with total disregard for any kind of legal framework — international or otherwise — and trying to deny its right to nationhood.”.Harper made the comments on Monday during a panel at the Raisina Dialogue geopolitics conference in New Delhi, as first reported by the National Post. Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and Jane Holl Lute, deputy secretary of Homeland Security under U.S. president Barack Obama, also attended. .Harper said he witnessed “every attempt” to bring Russia into the most senior councils of international alliances during his tenure as prime minister, but Putin “decided he did not want to be that.” .“He decided he would rather be an enemy of freedom and democracy and a rival to the Western world when he had every chance to do it otherwise,” Harper said. . In 2014, Harper inaugurated Operation Unifier, a deployment of roughly 500 Canadian Armed Forces trainers to Ukraine, which was launched under then Defence minister Jason Kenney..Premier Kenney referenced his history with Ukraine last week when Russia imposed a ban on him..“Anyone who is on Vladimir Putin’s blacklist is, I think, on the right side of history,” Kenney said..“My only question is: What took you so long?”.Rachel Emmanuel is the Edmonton Bureau Chief for the Western Standard.remmanuel@westernstandard.news
