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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