We must dig deep to beat Vladimir Putin, the Hitler of our age A MAD, murderous dictator threatens to unleash a nuclear world war. No longer is this a mere movie plot. Today it is terrifyingly real. It is paramount, as in 1939, that the free peoples of the West defeat this hideous new evil, this Hitler for our times. Some Britons, justifiably jaded by foreign wars, want nothing to do with Ukraine. But it cannot be ignored and nor should it. Vladimir Putin is inflicting his monstrous tyranny on an innocent population. And, if unrestrained, he will keep coming....