Before the start of WW2 Hitler used the city of Guernica, Spain as a trial run for the use of terror bombing of civilians to destroy the will of a population. Picasso immortalized the tragedy in his masterpiece, Guernica. Putin did his trial runs of terror bombing civilians in the cities of Grozny in Chechnya, and Aleppo in Syria. Putin had a free hand butchering people no one in Europe or America gave a crap about, but now Putin has unleashed his Orcs on Europe.
Because the courageous Ukrainian people have embarrassed Putin’s army of war criminals, incompetent thugs, and clueless conscripts, Putin has reverted to his tested strategy of terror - reducing cities to rubble and engaging in the mass murder of children to force his will on Ukraine.
I could post dozens of horrific images and videos of Russian war crimes and dead children in Ukraine but I’ll spare you. They are easy enough to find on social media and on the news.
A nuclear armageddon is now a possibility not because of NATO expansion, Russia’s concerns about defense, or Nazis in Ukraine. It’s because of the failing twisted imperial dreams of one evil sociopath: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
The toxic stew of outrageous lies, glorification of cruelty and violence, and a shocking level of ignorance and incompetence are shared by Putin’s flunkies and worshipers around the world. Just listen to the violent fantasies of alt-right militias in the US and what comes out of the mouths of Republican elected officials from the Trump wing that now controls the Republican party. It’s personified by Trump himself as well as his family of grifters. Make no mistake, a Stalinist dystopia is the future of Europe and America if Putin is victorious. Ukraine is now the front line in a war between liberal democracy and fascist savagery. Because Hitler was not stopped early on it wound up costing millions of lives before Hitler put a bullet in his head in a bunker in Berlin. In a Nuclear-armed world, humanity won’t survive a replay of the 1930s.
The free world needs to do whatever is necessary to ensure that Ukraine prevails and Putin fails.
But all the blood and sacrifice of the Ukrainian heroes will be all for naught if the fascists succeed right here in the most powerful country on earth. Every able body needs to work as if our lives depended on it towards defeating Putin’s American clones in the upcoming midterms. It’s not about different nuances in policy anymore. It's about the survival of democracy, freedom, and civil society.
Friday, Mar 18, 2022 · 2:49:44 PM +00:00 · Irenaeus
The timeline of Putin’s War
Plan A: a lightning strike that would decapitate the government
It failed — the Ukrainians wiped out the elite paratroop advance parties
Plan B: terror bomb the cities into submission
it failed — Ukraine is now on the counter-offensive
Plan C: use chemical weapons and blame the victims
I hope President Biden has some ideas on how to prevent this. Perhaps the President raised it with the Chinese in his meeting. We have seen the Putin playbook in Syria and is likely next. They already have their Russian flunkies like MTG and Carlson talking about Biolabs in Ukraine. This is preparation for the use of chemical weapons.