What putin did with Crimea in 2014 is analagous with ahat Hitler did with the Sudetenland in 1938 . A year or so later Hitler took all of Czecoslovakia ....took putin another 8 years to attempt that in Ukraine ....putins impersonation of Hitler is at face value quite good , but heaps less effective .....largely because of russian corruption .
Hitler never tried to make himself as rich as putin or to allow his oligarchs the same freedom to do so either ....as putin does .... a rot destroying russia ........if they had at least stopped military corruption russian troops would be in Kyiv today .
whether it's the lack of respect for neighbours , the arrogance , the callousness , the corruption , the lack of economic development compared to other European powers , the corruption , the internatioonal hackers putin allows to operate freely , lack of free press , the fascism , the gangsterism , the lack of judicial fidelity to their country or the alcoholism* ......there are so many problems in russia that there really isn't anything much to admire ......Hitler may have lacked all humanity , at least his people were eficient and capable ....can't even say that about russia ....but maybe that is a virtue after all because it has saved Ukraine .
* these are all facts and not possible to pretend any aren't true - try if you like and be laughed at