BY FLOODING OVER 40 SETTLEMENTS IN UKRAINE, 32 COUNTRIES JOIN GENOCIDE SUIT AGAINST PUTIN

Putin is losing in Ukraine so expect atrocities aplenty like the flooding of the Dnipro river. The Kremlin is reverting to ancient warfare and medieval cruelties. He will be remembered as one of history's vilest tyrants – as history catches up with him.
When the anti-Putin Russian forces (Free Russian Army) crossed from Ukraine into the neighboring Russian territory of Belgorod, it seemed like they'd be obliterated soon enough by Ruski forces. Moscow media claimed quickly that they'd been neutralized. Turned out they weren't. They've hung on, established a kind of beach head inside Russia and dug in. Suddenly, the chronology to the end of Putin became visible, however distant or strewn with atrocities. Indeed, his mercenary-in-chief and head of the Wagner militia, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is now in open dispute against the regular army, and keeps telling the truth about Russia's failures in Ukraine.

Finally it looks like Putin cannot escape the inexorable traps of history. For a long time he seemed to sail above them, now he keeps being caught in them.
Item one: The military is cracking and crumbling. We've seen this before in Russian history in WWI as a prelude to the 1917 Revolution and the Whites vs Reds civil war that followed. And for the same structural reasons then as now: soldiers impoverished at home in the countryside and abused in the army, shocked when they see how well the world lives; a military run by privileged oligarchs; implicit quasi-religious public faith in a hollow leader; a society and military run on sadistic repression and booze. All of which falls apart when it hits immovable truth abroad and everyone realizes the whole edifice was a sham.

In classical antiquity, the king of Lydia and richest man in the world, Croesus by name, was undone by hubris in quite the same way as Putin. Croesus was said to have crossed a river and lost an empire. He invaded the land of the Medes and was defeated by their allies the Persians, lost his wealth and his kingdom. First he spent months building up his forces, consulting the oracles, dithering and worrying. He worried that the Persians were slowly encircling his territory, that he therefore needed to strike first. Similarly, and delusionally, it seems that Putin was indeed convinced that Nato was encroaching on Moscow's sphere of influence. This, despite the undeniable fact that he was previously allowed to invade Georgia, Crimea and the Donbas with no Nato pushback.

Anyone telling you it was Nato that triggered Putin's fatal act of arrogance, his February 2022 charge on Kiev, should be reminded of such awkward facts. In some way, he sensed this might be his fatal overreach. He, like Croesus, dithered. Building up to some 90,000 troops for almost a year before acting. (This column predicted the invasion one year ahead, including the debacle for Putin that would follow.) In fact, all the former colonies of the Czarist and Soviet empires were terrified that Putin, in broad daylight, was being allowed incrementally to retake the lands lost in 1991. Nato didn't help them. Had the West checked Moscow in any way substantially through the post-2000 decades, there'd be no such momentum or widespread fear. Putin felt he was free to act unilaterally. Buoyed by oil revenues, Western corruption (Schroder of Germany) and pusillanimity (Merkel), easy re-entry into the Mideast (Syria), and much else, he stood poised on the cusp of history. Like Croesus, he didn't listen to doubters, and it now seems clear he will lose an empire.

There will be atrocities aplenty still. The Russians have just blown the Khakovka dam that holds back the Dnipro river, and flooded the land around Kherson and the territory of the people they rule in eastern Ukraine. Exactly this kind of thing is what Merkel and her ilk feared if they stood up to Putin. President Sarkozy of France found himself being manhandled by Putin in a closed-door summit meeting. Later Sarkozy went to Moscow to settle the 2008 invasion of Georgia and came to Tbilisi to convey Putin's humiliating conditions for peace. Sarkozy told Georgian President Saakashvili he must accept all of the Kremlin's demands because Putin was insane and capable of anything. The Georgian President refused. The Kremlin folded. (I know the less public details of this narrative because I worked on Saakashvili's – still unpublished - memoirs for a while.) But the West did nothing to punish Putin, and soon Crimea followed. The lesson is – Putin will threaten to commit the basest, insanest, acts and, absent the severest consequences, he will repeat them.

The Russian memory of Genghiz Khan and his descendants, the Golden Horde, underpins the national identity more than most Westerners realize. The Genghisids sacked Moscow in 1382 and all the subsequent defenses of the city and indeed the country invoked that first outrage. Against the Swedes (1498), the Poles (1612), Napoleon and lastly the Nazis. It has always been about defending righteousness as embodied by holy Russia, while colonizing and brutalizing subject peoples - even to the present day. Hence the need to portray Ukraine as a Nazi state. The Russians never underwent the rigors of post-colonial studies. As far as they're concerned, Sovietism was done to them not by them. What so many benighted non-Russians stubbornly fail to realize is that, without Moscow's intervention, they'd be running mad invading neighbors or killing ethnic Russians or each other – so the Kremlin narrative goes. And to keep the peace, Russia must intervene. If necessary by provoking outrages first, fomenting myriad little internecine wars, false flag operations, in order to impose Pax Rusiana.

Much of this, perhaps, is familiar knowledge. What follows from it though needs underlining – that any and every ruse de guerre gets legitimized. Including the nastiest atrocities. Because going back to the Genghis era, the side that dared to use the most unspeakable methods always won. Ivan the Terrible. You have to shock the opponent so brutally, slaughter entire towns, take thousands of hostages, use famine or disease or indeed flooding, that the next town or country concedes without a fight. The laying waste of Ukraine is just such a spectacle. The examples of history dictate such conduct in the present, Putin believes. There's no such thing as the march of enlightenment holding back savagery, just excuses by those too weak-minded to win by any means possible. But in instrumentalizing history's darkest chapters for his own ends, he has trapped himself in its coils. Modernization means moving beyond the retrogressive cycles of the past. He chose to dominate by reversing the process and is now paying the price of an ancient despot overtaken by ancien regime vices – corrupt courtiers, drunken soldiery, imperial overstretch and no confidants to hold back hubris, nemesis, and the fates.

SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2023/06/07/by-flooding-the-dnipro-putin-enters-history-as-one-of-its-cruelest-tyrants/?sh=79572126d5e6

Putin the indaboski 1 of Russian

No matter how you guys try to depreciate the manny, he is no one's slave. The Europeans has failed woefully to controll him .

Remove cap for him. Na king on his own

Issokay

Putin can't kill the number of people Bush and Obama and Tony Blair have killed.

American media should go and sit down, the world have seen their double standard life. America is the worst and the most corrupt country in the world.

Rambling of a western idiot, nothing to see here

Oh yeah while G.Bush and Tony Blair killed over 500K Iraqis and Afghan citizens and displaced millions.

Over 100K people were killed in Libya and millions displaced by N.Sarkozy led war on Libya.

B.Clinton destroyed Sudan, Serbia and Somalia were thousands of people killed and millions displaced.

seunny4lif:
Oh yeah while G.Bush and Tony Blair killed over 500K Iraqis and Afghan citizens and displaced millions.

Over 100K people were killed in Libya and millions displaced by N.Sarkozy led war on Libya.

B.Clinton destroyed Sudan, Serbia and Somalia were thousands of people killed and millions displaced.

Wrong. It is 1 million Iraqis at the very least, with thousands more raped. Dunno the casualty list for Afghanistan, but it is in the hundreds of thousands for sure.

GabrielYulaw:


Wrong. It is 1 million Iraqis at the very least, with thousands more raped. Dunno the casualty list for Afghanistan, but it is in the hundreds of thousands for sure.

over 2.5 million remember the first Iraq War which USA ran away from cost Iraq five hundred thousand Civilians death through sanctions alone.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki death rate about over ten million per city.

Infact the history of earth no nation comes close to USA death Rate not even Israel who have been fighting since genesis.

Gbadebo19:
BY FLOODING OVER 40 SETTLEMENTS IN UKRAINE, 32 COUNTRIES JOIN GENOCIDE SUIT AGAINST PUTIN

Putin is losing in Ukraine so expect atrocities aplenty like the flooding of the Dnipro river. The Kremlin is reverting to ancient warfare and medieval cruelties. He will be remembered as one of history's vilest tyrants – as history catches up with him.
When the anti-Putin Russian forces (Free Russian Army) crossed from Ukraine into the neighboring Russian territory of Belgorod, it seemed like they'd be obliterated soon enough by Ruski forces. Moscow media claimed quickly that they'd been neutralized. Turned out they weren't. They've hung on, established a kind of beach head inside Russia and dug in. Suddenly, the chronology to the end of Putin became visible, however distant or strewn with atrocities. Indeed, his mercenary-in-chief and head of the Wagner militia, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is now in open dispute against the regular army, and keeps telling the truth about Russia's failures in Ukraine.

Finally it looks like Putin cannot escape the inexorable traps of history. For a long time he seemed to sail above them, now he keeps being caught in them.
Item one: The military is cracking and crumbling. We've seen this before in Russian history in WWI as a prelude to the 1917 Revolution and the Whites vs Reds civil war that followed. And for the same structural reasons then as now: soldiers impoverished at home in the countryside and abused in the army, shocked when they see how well the world lives; a military run by privileged oligarchs; implicit quasi-religious public faith in a hollow leader; a society and military run on sadistic repression and booze. All of which falls apart when it hits immovable truth abroad and everyone realizes the whole edifice was a sham.

In classical antiquity, the king of Lydia and richest man in the world, Croesus by name, was undone by hubris in quite the same way as Putin. Croesus was said to have crossed a river and lost an empire. He invaded the land of the Medes and was defeated by their allies the Persians, lost his wealth and his kingdom. First he spent months building up his forces, consulting the oracles, dithering and worrying. He worried that the Persians were slowly encircling his territory, that he therefore needed to strike first. Similarly, and delusionally, it seems that Putin was indeed convinced that Nato was encroaching on Moscow's sphere of influence. This, despite the undeniable fact that he was previously allowed to invade Georgia, Crimea and the Donbas with no Nato pushback.

Anyone telling you it was Nato that triggered Putin's fatal act of arrogance, his February 2022 charge on Kiev, should be reminded of such awkward facts. In some way, he sensed this might be his fatal overreach. He, like Croesus, dithered. Building up to some 90,000 troops for almost a year before acting. (This column predicted the invasion one year ahead, including the debacle for Putin that would follow.) In fact, all the former colonies of the Czarist and Soviet empires were terrified that Putin, in broad daylight, was being allowed incrementally to retake the lands lost in 1991. Nato didn't help them. Had the West checked Moscow in any way substantially through the post-2000 decades, there'd be no such momentum or widespread fear. Putin felt he was free to act unilaterally. Buoyed by oil revenues, Western corruption (Schroder of Germany) and pusillanimity (Merkel), easy re-entry into the Mideast (Syria), and much else, he stood poised on the cusp of history. Like Croesus, he didn't listen to doubters, and it now seems clear he will lose an empire.

There will be atrocities aplenty still. The Russians have just blown the Khakovka dam that holds back the Dnipro river, and flooded the land around Kherson and the territory of the people they rule in eastern Ukraine. Exactly this kind of thing is what Merkel and her ilk feared if they stood up to Putin. President Sarkozy of France found himself being manhandled by Putin in a closed-door summit meeting. Later Sarkozy went to Moscow to settle the 2008 invasion of Georgia and came to Tbilisi to convey Putin's humiliating conditions for peace. Sarkozy told Georgian President Saakashvili he must accept all of the Kremlin's demands because Putin was insane and capable of anything. The Georgian President refused. The Kremlin folded. (I know the less public details of this narrative because I worked on Saakashvili's – still unpublished - memoirs for a while.) But the West did nothing to punish Putin, and soon Crimea followed. The lesson is – Putin will threaten to commit the basest, insanest, acts and, absent the severest consequences, he will repeat them.

The Russian memory of Genghiz Khan and his descendants, the Golden Horde, underpins the national identity more than most Westerners realize. The Genghisids sacked Moscow in 1382 and all the subsequent defenses of the city and indeed the country invoked that first outrage. Against the Swedes (1498), the Poles (1612), Napoleon and lastly the Nazis. It has always been about defending righteousness as embodied by holy Russia, while colonizing and brutalizing subject peoples - even to the present day. Hence the need to portray Ukraine as a Nazi state. The Russians never underwent the rigors of post-colonial studies. As far as they're concerned, Sovietism was done to them not by them. What so many benighted non-Russians stubbornly fail to realize is that, without Moscow's intervention, they'd be running mad invading neighbors or killing ethnic Russians or each other – so the Kremlin narrative goes. And to keep the peace, Russia must intervene. If necessary by provoking outrages first, fomenting myriad little internecine wars, false flag operations, in order to impose Pax Rusiana.

Much of this, perhaps, is familiar knowledge. What follows from it though needs underlining – that any and every ruse de guerre gets legitimized. Including the nastiest atrocities. Because going back to the Genghis era, the side that dared to use the most unspeakable methods always won. Ivan the Terrible. You have to shock the opponent so brutally, slaughter entire towns, take thousands of hostages, use famine or disease or indeed flooding, that the next town or country concedes without a fight. The laying waste of Ukraine is just such a spectacle. The examples of history dictate such conduct in the present, Putin believes. There's no such thing as the march of enlightenment holding back savagery, just excuses by those too weak-minded to win by any means possible. But in instrumentalizing history's darkest chapters for his own ends, he has trapped himself in its coils. Modernization means moving beyond the retrogressive cycles of the past. He chose to dominate by reversing the process and is now paying the price of an ancient despot overtaken by ancien regime vices – corrupt courtiers, drunken soldiery, imperial overstretch and no confidants to hold back hubris, nemesis, and the fates.

SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2023/06/07/by-flooding-the-dnipro-putin-enters-history-as-one-of-its-cruelest-tyrants/?sh=79572126d5e6

Vladimir Putin is learning wait for me the 18th president of Nigeria.

They can fool idiots in western countries with their propaganda .


Meanwhile i want to pay 1 million dollars for shovels and pickaxes that Russians are using to fight the war .

It cost 20 million to produce leopard and bradley tanks , for sake of developing countries and with nigerian hustle sprit .

I will buy these Shovels for 1 million and sell to other countries like China and India for atleast 2 million dollars .

Any interested Shovels and Pickaxes manufacturers from Russia can please contact me.

NATO enters history as the way and means through which the 3rd Reich perpetuated.

I would never take a Zombie that believes Russia would blow their own dams up or blow their own gas pipeline up seriously. I didn't read all of your rubbish anyways, continue spewing trash 🗑️ thinking you're making sense.

Badassniggga:
I would never take a Zombie that believes Russia would blow their own dams up or blow their own gas pipeline up seriously. I didn't read all of your rubbish anyways, continue spewing trash 🗑️ thinking you're making sense.

Today, I just got the time to reply you.
I honestly hate wasting my time educating certified SLOWPOKEs like you. The rate of your stupidity is second to none. You deliberately avoided quoting me so that I will not easily notice that you are here again. For crying out loud, if your wretched soul is so sick of my posts, why not hug the nearest transformer. I posted something from Forbes, you are developing high blood pressure. Why not hold body with the fake news you read on your telegram groups.
Demented Nonentity, I know what hurts you and I will say it again
It is not the fault of the US or the fault of the west that your grandfather sold his siblings for mirrors and plastic spoons. Go ahead and report me to the mods like you always do

Propaganda.

The simple fact that the article is from a Western source already invalidates anything and everything written. The West has lost all legitimacy, and it should call into question the mental soundness of anyone that still believes anything Western.