PORTRAIT OF A DEFEATED MAN
He’s suddenly turning old before our eyes. He’s made the most catastrophic mistake of his life – so catastrophic it has destroyed his country. Worse, there is a part of him that realizes he has the soul of an inhuman monster. His soul is being eaten alive from the inside out. You can see it in his eyes.
He knows he’s lost. He’s down to ordering his soldiers to murder children.
He thought he’d have this massive invasion force slice into Ukraine from Belarus like a hot knife through butter, take Kyiv, install his Commie puppet Yanukovych as leader of a Russian Ukraine, and that would be that. Biggest mistake of modern times.
Not only have the Ukrainians shredded the Russian Army to ribbons, they’ve done the same to the most viciously feared terrorist murderers on the planet, the Chechen Kadyrovites. Assigned to assassinate Zelensky, they are returning to Grozny in body bags.
Next were the professional mercenary killers of the Wagner Group. All that’s left of them are their dog tags…
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace in an interview today (3/08) noted the massive number of Russian soldiers killed in their “illegal invasion” of Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6S6SNwxsDY
Yesterday (3/07) at the UN Security Council, Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Serhiy Kyslytsia called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to assist Ukraine in removing the thousands of bodies of dead Russian soldiers decomposing in the fields of Ukraine.
Go on the twitter feeds of journalists such as Igor Girkin, Nolan Peterson, Illia Ponomarenko, and others covering the war, and you’ll get dozens and dozens of vid clips of utter obliteration of Russian war materiel. It’s really mind-boggling.
Putin put everything he had militarily into a quick conquest of Ukraine and has gotten his ass handed to him in a Ukrainian handbasket. It’s over for Russia being a military threat to anybody for a generation – or an economic threat for that matter, much less a political threat.
The question now is – will Russia implode like the Soviet Union? Collapse in upon itself and dissolve into various ethnic principalities and duchies. What will hold Russia together now? The Stans of Central Asia split up into separate countries after the literal breakup of the USSR. Is that to be the fate of Russia?
We are, the world is, at a pivot point in history – and a good one, thanks to the most heroic people on Earth today, the Ukrainian people. We all owe them our deepest gratitude – to be paid by doing whatever we can to rebuild their country stronger, more prosperous, more beautiful, and more peaceful than ever.
It’s the least we can do for them. As for Vlad, his fate may be that of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic, dying in a prison cell at the international Court of the Hague. If he’s lucky.