1945 is coming for Putin
The more Putin raises stakes in war with Ukraine, the greater the risk that it will backfire on him in a boomerang of retaliation
Missile terror perpetrated by Russia against the civilian Ukrainian population indicates that the Kremlin no longer believes in being able to win on the battlefield. And in the near future, Putin may run out of coffins for his "army" who died in Ukraine. Quantitative losses of Russian military terrorists will soon cross the mark of 120,000. This means that it will be increasingly difficult for "talking heads" on Russian propaganda television to tell that their so-called "special operation" is successful and everything is going according to plan.
If Putin does not have mental disorders, which Moscow managed to hide from Russians and the world community for years, then the question arises how he could so carelessly underestimate the strength of Ukraine and overestimate the strength of the Russian army.
"If Putin does not have mental disorders, which Moscow managed to hide from Russians and the world community for years, then the question arises how he could so carelessly underestimate the strength of Ukraine and overestimate the strength of the Russian army."
The scale of Russia's mistakes and miscalculations cannot be explained if Putin had been properly briefed. This is a common mistake of all dictators, who surround themselves with sycophants and buy more and more into their own propaganda and myths about their greatness fabricated by it. This "greatness" in 2023 will start to climb sideways for him. Putin will inevitably have to face reality.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, everyone saw how vulnerable its entire artificial state structure turned out to be. And under Putin's rule, the Russian Federation has repeatedly demonstrated that it is not even up to the former "standards" of the Soviet Union. Today's Russia is one big "Potemkin village", where television propagandists are constantly trying to make wishful thinking come true.
Now Putin is delaying the end of existence of his criminal regime, sending more and more hastily gathered soldiers from all over Russia to certain death. But it was never a good sign when someone ordered others to die to save their power.
Dictator, right from the start with religious fanaticism, is fighting for realization of his fixed idea - destruction of Ukraine's statehood. In this sense, his geopolitical obsession with Ukraine is very similar to Hitler's rampage in the winter of 1945, when, at the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany, he gave orders from a bunker that could not change anything. Putin also prefers to sit in his underground bunker, but at the same time his subordinates try to give him information he wants to hear from them. And this incredible information deforms his already distorted vision of the picture of the world.
"Putin's geopolitical obsession with Ukraine is very similar to Hitler's rampage in the winter of 1945, when, at the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany, he gave orders from a bunker that could not change anything."
Totalitarian ruler still hopes that he will enter history books as an unparalleled strategist who managed to return Russia to its former imperial "greatness". Putin imagines himself to be the best state leader in the history of the world. Although in reality everything is to the contrary. Launching missiles at Ukrainian settlements turned him into an international terrorist. Although he is very afraid of attempts on his life, he does not care about the lives of others. And to achieve his ephemeral imperial goals, he easily uses untrained Russian mobilized troops as cannon fodder.
Now a very dangerous situation is coming for the autocratic all-powerful king. Putin faces a series of military challenges that are almost insurmountable at this stage of war: poor logistics, including lack of ammunition, shortages of food and winter clothing, low morale, senior officers who are constantly dying on the battlefield.
"Putin faces a series of military challenges that are almost insurmountable at this stage of war: poor logistics, including lack of ammunition, shortages of food and winter clothing, low morale, senior officers who are constantly dying on the battlefield."
At a time when Putin's adversary, Ukrainian army, is relatively well equipped, led, has a clear vision of its goals and weapons, missiles for HIMARS launchers, which really change rules of the game on the fronts. The only thing that slows down the faster end of Putin's war is lack of sufficient number of modern tanks and aircraft, which Ukrainians need for offensive operations.
We can say with confidence that on February 24, 2022, Putin could not have thought that he would find himself in such a terrible situation - isolated, abandoned, alone. After the start of war in Ukraine, everything looked completely different for him, and now he is forced to at least somehow control the situation, to convince Russians that everything is fine and Russia is close to victory. It's a big lie that he doesn't believe himself, but has to voice for internal use. Now he has two options: surrender and withdraw Russian troops from the entire territory of Ukraine, or try to use tactical nuclear weapons, knowing in advance that the answer may be destruction of the entire Russian military infrastructure, and not only it.
Ukrainians also have very little choice. Either accept Ukraine's loss of a large part of its territories, and thereby encourage the Kremlin to new Russian aggression, or continue its struggle until exhaustion of Russian Federation and our victory. It is unrealistic to believe that it is somehow possible to agree with Putin on withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine. He is a geopolitical maniac who is convinced that the world should be exactly as he sees it from his office in the Kremlin.
"It is unrealistic to believe that it is somehow possible to agree with Putin on withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine. He is a geopolitical maniac who is convinced that the world should be exactly as he sees it from his office in the Kremlin."
It's amazing that the world is mostly filled with sane, normal people who just want to have a decent life and take care of their families, relatives, friends and neighbours. But for some reason it still has a lot of "leaders" - crazy, narcissistic, with irresistible megalomania, who are most interested in their own heritage.
Putin, like Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong, constantly feeds on his own "exceptionalism" and the voices of his cronies, creating an "echo chamber" of identical voices that never provide real data or honest information. Most societies run by tyrants who depend on a group of sycophants are ultimately doomed because their citizens are infantilized to the point of becoming emotional cripples who are unwilling to make decisions for themselves even when given the chance.
Unhindered spread of lies fed to the crazy dictator by his entourage shows that there are practically no protective barriers against disinformation that people are pushing on the person responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
World War I began in July 1914. In mid-November 1914, German General Staff and Kaiser already began to understand that Germany would not be able to win the war. However, they could not find a way to stop it. Therefore, it dragged on for another four years and took millions of human lives. However, in this case the situation is somewhat different, if Moscow does not want to end the war itself, others will do it for her after the Russian defeat.
"Everything Putin is doing now is very reminiscent of Hitler's isolation from reality, rising distrust of his generals and personal control over military operations when Führer decided he was a military genius like Napoleon. And we know very well what came out of all this."
Everything Putin is doing now is very reminiscent of Hitler's isolation from reality, rising distrust of his generals and personal control over military operations when Führer decided he was a military genius like Napoleon. And we know very well what came out of all this.
Senseless decisions of a group of aggressive psychopaths, who rule Russia with a population of 140 million people, are leading the Russian Federation to a tragic result - fragmentation into parts. Ukraine is fighting and defending its independence in a terrible war, so that Holodomors (Soviet man-made famine - ed.), Gulags, crimes of secret police and mass murders of its population will never happen again on our land.
Free people cannot live in Moscow slavery. And after our victory, the question of joining NATO will become very important for Ukraine. And this would give guarantee that the Russian Federation, or what may remain of it after war, will never again attempt to "liberate" Ukrainians from themselves, conducting bloody wars under the guise of fictitious mythical "special operations".
About the author: Viktor Kaspruk, journalist
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