READ HERE: Amid the recent days of stepped-up major Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which the Kremlin on Thursday said is necessary in response to Ukrainian forces’ own cross-border attacks on Russian oil refineries, the rhetoric out of Europe is becoming unhinged.

In but the latest example of this, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has compared Putin and his war in Ukraine to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovak territory in 1938.