The number of threats is not decreasing. They are only transforming and changing the guise.  As during the Third Reich era, these new threats show the same contempt for human life and claims to world exclusiveness and diktat. ~Vladimir Putin

This should reassure many of Putin’s critics.  He is also not above using the same cheap invocations of WWII propaganda to advance his views, which gives him something in common with many of his Western critics.  The Russians say that he was not referring to America, which means that he might have been using the commemoration of victory over the Nazis to make the same sort of ham-fisted connection between WWII and the current fight with jihadis that is so popular in some circles over here.  I sense an opportunity for a meeting of the minds: Rick Santorum and Vova, together at last!