Already, it is clear from the excellent and detailed advance knowledge of all of Putin’s steps that his enemy comes from within. Russia’s Putin would likely be removed from currently friendly forces (or by military officials) inside the Kremlin walls. Unlike Germany’s Hitler, one must assume that it is not the entire Russian power apparatus that has become positively sycophantic. What about a nuclear exchange?Ī nuclear exchange might be a real possibility at that point and World War III would be a certainty. Putin would be playing the ultimate Russian roulette with all chambers of the revolver held to his temple fully loaded. While it was somewhat doubtful until now, whether the NATO alliance would hold if tiny Lithuania were invaded by Russian troops, the gambling rather than chess-playing Vladimir Putin would be taught very quickly that NATO with 100% certainty would now invoke Article 5 of NATO’s agreement and consider an attack on its member state Lithuania by Russia an attack on all. True, inebriated by his dreamed-up, quick conquest of Ukraine, supposedly without any Western military response, he might just be tempted to try his luck in the Baltics. It will come from within the Kremlin should Putin opt to push his luck even further. While regime change in Russia is not on the official agenda of the Western Alliance, it seems like an unavoidable consequence of Putin’s gigantic political miscalculation.
For whom the bell will tollĮventually, Putin’s final hour will ring. But as the numbers of Russian dissenters rise and the body bags of Russian soldiers returning the attempted raid of Ukraine pile up, the numbers of their respective aggrieved friends and relatives will grow exponentially.
Predictably, Putin’s simple mind has only one response to dissent, murderous oppression. Now, impressively, some Russians are rising as we speak. Meanwhile, Russians will grow uneasy over the cost of the war and the unnecessary hardship they have to bear for the delusions of a crazy and largely unpopular president. From technology to know-how to foods and medicines, everything will become scarce. Russia’s isolation will further deepen the economic and social decline of the country. Public cowardice begets declining living standards
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Its coffers, presumably full of hard currency, turned out to be rather empty as soon as Western sanctions took hold. It is cut off from international trade and it will find few buyers for the very few things of value that it has to sell. Russia’s economic hardship will begin right away. If the Russian people ever had a reason to muster their collective courage and have the guts to stand up to a despot, that moment is now. The difference between the end of the USSR driven by the 10-year suffering during the Afghanistan adventure is that Putin’s end following his Ukraine disaster will come much sooner than 10 years from now. Ending Russian adventurism, at least for a while He is supposedly afraid they could leave their briefcases too close to his chair – a fate that Hitler, unfortunately, narrowly escaped.
Social media are already featuring jokes about the long distance Putin keeps even to his own staffers at his gargantuan conference table. Like then, a man or woman far wiser than Putin will admit defeat either after Putin’s removal or (premature?) death. After all, the USSR was eventually brought down by the enormous economic costs of a ten-year military adventure in Afghanistan. Putin’s craving to bring back the old Soviet Union will end like the Soviet Union itself did.
Putin may use as many cluster bombs as he wants, it will still lead to an iconic defeat for Putin and Mother Russia. Russia’s massive own goalīut even then, it was not difficult to predict that Russia’s presumable victory on the battlefield would be followed by its ultimate political defeat. Putin’s ruthlessness would not stop at killing Ukraine’s legitimate president and replace him and his government with Putin puppets. Until quite recently, it was widely assumed that the overwhelming military power of Putin’s gang of thugs that invaded Ukraine would quickly and brutally overthrow the democratic government of the country.
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