Vladimir Putin’s hubris and tragic miscalculations bring Russia to its knees, and cements Ukrainian resistance to Russian influence and aggression for decades to come

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Putin has only succeeded in hardening anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine. He saw there was a small number of anti-Russian extremist elements - ‘Nazis,’ whatever we call them; every country has their extremists, including Russia and the U.S., as we’re all too aware – and used that as an excuse to butcher the Ukrainian people. He is a snake who will take advantage of any situation to put his venomous fangs into his prey, in this case by grossly exaggerating the threat these extremist elements posed in order to achieve his actual goals of conquering and plundering. Vladimir Putin does not even bother hiding his ambitions of restoring the Russian Empire, and in his Machiavellian mind he may really have convinced himself that he is saving Ukraine by forcing it back into Russia’s orbit. 

Pray tell, why should Russia’s various neuroticisms and its never-ending inferiority/superiority complex – all of this embodied in Putin – be the rest of the world’s problem? Ukraine suffered long enough under Russian domination and decided, upon the fall of the Soviet Union, to move into the future. While still honoring their traditions and national character, they chose to go their own way in the world and strive for a better life. Putin makes no bones about wanting to stop the future, and restore a glorious past that never was quite so glorious for the hundreds of millions who suffered for it for so long, continuing today. 

In the future, elected lawmakers in Ukraine are only going to be more stridently pro-Western and anti-Moscow, all across the political spectrum. Those small militias and such that Putin has scapegoated all of Ukraine for are now going to grow much larger, and more dangerous to Russia. Government-sanctioned or working in rogue capacity, vengeance-minded Ukrainian militias will conduct attacks on Russian cities for several years to come. And that’s all on top of the crippling sanctions placed upon Russia by most of the world. Russia is now isolated, its military is decimated and has been exposed as a paper tiger, its people will grow increasingly restless, and the prospect of revolution and civil war grows in likelihood with each day Putin continues this ‘special operation.’ Even most ethnic Russian speakers in Ukraine are enraged, and will increasingly identify as purely Ukrainian in the years to come. Vladimir Putin, in his quest to restore Russian greatness, has destroyed Russia. And glory is now Ukraine’s to be had. The Russian people will be divided as Ukraine's people, beaten and bloodied as they are, stand united. But, just as with a wounded snake, Putin is going to cause more terror and grow more desperate in the days ahead, so stay on guard. Слава Україні

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(VIDEO) Putin’s ‘yes men’ misled him on Ukraine invasion prospects - Anytime a leader creates such an overwhelming atmosphere of fear and conformity, critical thinking is going to go out the window and only what the leader wants to hear will be permissible. And what always results are tragic incompetence and worse, never success. (France 24 3/31)

'Residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, described how Russian forces use hunger as a weapon of war in a monthlong siege of the southern port. “No roof, no food and no water,” survivors texted relatives who escaped.' (New York Times 3/29)

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Sen. Mitt Romney: NATO would be likely to reconsider U.S. membership if Trump is returned to the presidency in 2024 - The stakes have never been higher. If America goes all-out Fascist, which is the goal of Trump and nationalist populists, none of you want to know what is going to happen to us. The Russian people have no one to protect them from their tyrant, and if America does not have friends in the world, nobody will be coming to our aid when the ongoing coup attempt is complete. America foolishly disregarded Sen. Romney’s warning about Putin in 2012, including being mocked by the sitting president at that moment (‘the 80s called and we didn’t answer.’) The past three administrations did not take Vladimir Putin seriously, and other world leaders were complicit in that regard (looking at you, Gerhard Schröder.)  We’re paying the price now - and Ukraine most of all. So, heed what Sen. Romney has to say. (Yahoo! News 3/29)

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