Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Putin is vivid example of this saying

I was struck by one episode in a recent New York Times op-ed.

In November 2021, CIA director William Burns went to Moscow with a warning visit, because they already believed that Putin was going to attack Ukraine and that the USA would definitely react to it. To which Patrushev put his pen aside, looked Burns in the eye and said the phrase: “We can do it. We're back.”

Damn, this “we're back” stinks of cheap platitudes and Hollywood. Red alert. These guys were really playing a new cold war and confrontation with the USA. Idiots.

Yes, Putin had his scores to settle with Ukraine, but our country for him was not only a way to return the lands of the USSR and revenge for the pro-European choice. And he really imagined himself as the leader of 1/6 of the planet and an antagonist of the democratic world.

“It is not for nothing that the anti-NATO and anti-American narrative was promoted even earlier and more strongly than the anti-Ukrainian one. In 2008, Putin warned Bush that he would attack Ukraine if Kyiv joins NATO and take Crimea and the east (yes, yes, back in 2008.)”

After all, it is not for nothing that the anti-NATO and anti-American narrative was promoted even earlier and more strongly than the anti-Ukrainian one. In 2008, Putin warned Bush that he would attack Ukraine if it joined NATO, and take Crimea and the east (yes, yes, back in 2008), and under Obama they were laughing at the Americans in full swing.

“A worthless group of historical reenactors managed to create a huge trouble and cause gigantic irreparable damage, being in absolute illusions.”

Amazingly, this worthless group of historical reenactors managed to create a huge trouble and cause gigantic irreparable damage, being in absolute illusions.

There is a saying “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Now we have a very vivid example of the implementation of this saying. When having the excess of power, money and influence, people lose their sense of reality and imagine themselves as Napoleons.

And there is no way to put them in a mental hospital.

About the author: Volodymyr Hevko, marketer, blogger.

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