Fear of Freedom

Putin's Fear

Does anyone know why Putin is doing what he's doing? His version, a military action to curb neo-Nazism and genocide against non-Ukrainian nationals and to ensure his borders from a country he deemed a threat to Russia's sovereignty as a nation. Nothing could be further from the truth than what he is espousing with his rhetoric saying Russian citizens in the Donbas and Luhansk regions of the Crimea are being systematically targeted and executed. That this is genocide, and he is there to assist the Ukrainian people in their attempt to oust President Zelensky and his so-called Nazi Regime. 

As we all have seen by his most current actions, this man, this dog, has committed crimes against humanity only equaled to Adolf Hitler in World War II. To target innocent people, women, children, infirmed, elderly, doctors, nurses and hospitals in his ruthless attempt to force his will on an unwilling people, is irreprehensible, incorrigible, and psychopathic and needs to be stopped by any and all means at our disposal, up to and including his death. Am I out-of-line to express these thoughts? In Russia, I would be, but fortunately and by the Grace of God, I am an American and a Proud American at that. And it is for that very same reason I can say what I just did and not worry about retribution from some non-elected bureaucrat who knows less about his responsibilities than the person who appointed him, to be threatened, detained, arrested, convicted without due process of justice and imprisoned. In other words, I have the freedom to say it. Therein lies Putin's fear. 

Freedom, "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint", or "absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government", and finally, "the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved". 

I would like to see a Russian dictionary's definition to freedom or if the word freedom even exists in the Russian diction. It has been proven that it definitely doesn't exist in Putin's sense of logic. The word freedom never entered his thoughts, much less his words when he launched this atrocious action against a free and peaceful people of Ukraine. Ukrainians learned from Russia, learned their languages, their dialogs, customs, way of thinking, studied at their universities, trained on their military bases, operated their military hardware, and then, they remembered all that they had learned, taught those after them, all the while Russia ignored them, treated them like expendable liabilities not worth the worry, first in any conflict, first to die over something Ukraine would not benefit from. 

Then it happened, Ukraine tasted freedom, and in that freedom, they found a voice, and that voice rang throughout Ukraine, from border to border that now they could choose their own destiny and choose who will take them there and choose their successors, in other words, they were going to govern themselves, based on a democratic society. They were going to choose who they listened to, who they would ally themselves with, who they would trade with, not be told. And it was in their discoveries of even the most basic of freedoms we possess, Ukrainians had been denied, as most enslaved peoples are. 

They built an army, knowing one day they may have to turn them towards Russian men, and trained them in the ways Russia had trained them, with Ukrainian improvements, built an air force, a navy, a lot with western technology, Ukrainian technology and Ukrainian improved old and still in use, Russian technology. The Ukrainians understand Russian war tactics, how they move, their vulnerabilities tactically and their weaknesses mentally and know how to exploit them. A mistake on Putin's part to attack an army his Russia helped train a long time ago. Great foresight there Putin.

In their struggles to maintain their freedoms and defend their country, their people, a new voice rises to their struggles, Volodymyr Zelensky, an actor, a comedian and educated man, and understood the people he called brothers and sisters. A man used to a stage, comfortable in crowds, enjoyed socializing with countrymen and loved showing his country off to the world. He is a proud Ukrainian, a Ukrainian who understands the needs of Ukraine and its people, a Ukrainian who not only stands behind his people, but he also leads his people. He places himself between his fellow countrymen and Putin's crushing power to defend his people, his country. At no time in my memory have I witnessed the strength, the determination to withstand such an invasion of this magnitude and with such fierceness to overwhelm a country and its government and to try and decimate an entire people. 

So few Ukrainian soldiers compared to what Russia is throwing at them, but resistance strength is growing as Russia pushes harder, he chooses to stay, rather than fighting Russia in exile. He will meet Putin head on, such as a true leader would do. He is a True Leader, a Hero for the People, he is not only a man for the people, he is a man of the people. 

This is not the Ukraine Putin expected, or is this war not going as Putin expected, or did he expect it, did he plan on using it as a part of his propaganda to support his accusations that the Ukrainian citizens are acting like Jihadist and blowing themselves up and driving by in cars shooting soldiers and civilians? As Putin's men and allies kill civilians as they try to flee  through so called safe corridors provided by Putin. Sounds like Hitler sending Jews to the showers to me. Is this the excuses, the lies he will tell the mothers' of the young untrained boys sent in first, that these Jihadist citizens killed your son and he died a brave death defending Mother Russia?

Ukraine's quest to have a democratic society and a free nation dedicated to the improvement of their infrastructure, human rights, social services, defense and their government designed to support the rights of the people who freely elected them and gives them the voice to decide has sent a shiver of cold fear down Putin's spine. To see the Western Alliance and NATO as well as the European Union welcome them and seek their entry into the E.U., NATO and the Western Alliance and Ukraine has every right to accept. Only Putin sees this as a threat, not even the countries Putin trades with sees his action as illegal and unjustified, as they too traded with Ukraine.

Why should Putin see this as a threat to Russia's security, unless he plans to further his idiotic dream for a New Russian Empire that he likes to hint to, just as Xi hints of a New Chinese Dynasty, those days are past, and Putin fears his future. As Xi imagines himself more as an Emperor likens to Putin imaging himself as Tsar. What he needs to understand they world has had its share of Tsars, Czars, Fascist, Dictators, Zealots, Emperors, Tyrants, and those who profit from the suffering enslavement of others, and they are tired of it.

Freedom and all it implies scares Putin, with freedom, he loses control, with freedom, voices are liberated, with freedom, choices are made and with freedom, changes are made. He loses his people's trust. He loses respect and no one will have faith in him. His fear will defeat him.

Later, 

Smiling Pig

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Goodbye and Good Riddance

Goodbye McDonalds, PepsiCo and Coca Cola

It is sad to think that companies who built their riches and success in a country that supports human rights, of its citizens and their rights to live without fear of reprisals from their governments when they see atrocities being committed against a people who want to govern themselves, make their own decisions as to the path they want to forge in the defense of democracy, the same as American citizens fought for in every major war we have been involved with, a people's right to self-govern themselves and choose without outside interference and political influence that would not benefit the citizens, but rather support some foreign dictator's inane ideologies under the guise that he is protecting the sovereignty of his country and his people, that you do not stand with the beliefs that it was a democratic belief that America was founded on, to be properly represented by people of our choosing and not that of some rabid demonic dog bent on creating a New World Order with him and China in control. 

Shame on you! You do not deserve to profit from the American people, you do not deserve to enjoy the same privileges that the companies who have heeded to the American government's plea to cut ties with Russia and its allies and support the people who helped you get to where you are at now. Instead, you choose profits over democracy. You are feeding the enemy, those bent on destroying the democratic way of life. You support oppression, slavery, human rights abuses and atrocities against man, with only your profits in mind. You are choosing the wrong path, looking in the wrong direction and believing in something the world will not put up with, not just the American citizens. 

You seem to forget how strong the American consumer is, you seem to forget those before you who placed profits over the needs of the Americans who you thought needed you, they were wrong, just as you will be reminded of soon once your coffers are being depleted trying to regain the status you had before you made the ridiculous decision to keep doing business with tyrants and rabid dogs. It is then you will understand the true meaning of that old American adage, "you have made your bed, now lie in it..." I am sure the Russian dogs will appreciate the American fleas willing to lie with him.

You' re infected now, infected with something much worse than what we have already been put through with the pandemic we are suffering, to which there is no cure for, and that is the ire of the American consumer, the most powerful weapon in the world. We drive the economy, and we dictate who can and who can't do business and who choose where we will spend OUR DOLLARS and who will profit from them, not you or anyone else, including misaligned governments. You seem to forget who has the final say, it's not the American government, any foreign government or any one individual, much less a greedy corporate infrastructure, the American consumer will bring you to your knees and then the world consumers will finish it. It is the beginning of your demise.

Who has the most to lose, Americans? I don't think so, fortunately we live in a country of the most powerful weapon a government, or corporation has ever encountered, the power of the American consumer and his choice of where he spends his money and who will profit from it, and it will not be you. You've opted to turn a deaf ear to the call to cut all ties with Russia and its allies, you can suffer for it. Your name will leave a bitter taste to the American consumer's pallet, and it will last for many decades to come. Your profits will decline, your shareholders will sell off stocks, your Wall Street backers will walk away from you once they see the will of the American consumer. Americans won't suffer, you will suffer, and you will suffer dearly. Welcome back Royal Crown Cola, America will rise and place you back where you belong, standing with democracy and the American way of life!

Later, 

The Smiling Pig (he's laughing today)

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