Today, the media often compare Russia’s current leader Vladimir Putin to Stalin or Hitler, although in reality he is not similar to either of them.
The Bolshevik leader Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) had a political ideology and a clearly defined goal that he and his associates strove to achieve.
The leader of the German National Socialists, Adolf Schekelgruber (Hitler), also based his policies on ideology.
There is no point in recounting the political views of both dictators, as they are well known to everyone.
The question arises about Putin’s political beliefs. It is also unclear for the sake of what goal he attacked Ukraine.
In none of his speeches has the Russian president been able to clearly explain the purpose for which he started the so-called special military operation.
At the same time, it is well known that Putin gathered convicts, “mobilized” by the gang of the odious Prigozhin, whom he promised early release, various debtors, the unemployed, representatives of national minorities and depressed regions of the Russian Federation, who went to this war for what they considered to be big money. So this gang of criminals and all sorts of vagabonds is fighting Ukraine, and it is obvious that they are doing so solely for money and without any ideological convictions.
Lately, representatives of the African continent, North Korea, and China have also begun to join this army of mercenaries. Captured by Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, they also testified that they went to war with Ukraine solely for financial reward, as those prisoners of war repeatedly stated during press conferences organized by the relevant Ukrainian services for the media.
Thus, this motley crowd of mercenaries and adventurers has been trying to capture Ukraine for over three years. Of course, this entire process is taking place under the leadership of officers from regular units and subdivisions of the RF’s Armed Forces.
Now let’s return to Putin’s political beliefs and his ideological justification for the invasion of Ukraine.
Since there is no more or less acceptable answer to these questions, an analysis of the actual circumstances of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine gives reason to conclude that the current ruler of the Russian Federation, abusing his power and ignoring the norms of international law, has assembled a gang of mercenaries and adventurers with the aim of seizing the territory of a neighboring state and replacing its legally elected members of parliament and president.
And here Putin, or, as some claim, Lzheputin, looks not like a president of a great power with imperial ambitions, but like a thief and a wild petty bourgeois who accidentally found himself at the top of power and, using the state resources of the RF and criminals and adventurers, decided to “raid” Ukraine.
Now everyone knows that Putin was unable to conquer Ukraine in three days. He was unable to do so in three and a half years, and it is obvious that he will never be able to do so. Realizing that he has dragged the country into an adventure for which he will sooner or later have to answer, Putin is afraid to stop the war and is therefore stalling for time. It is hard to say what he is counting on, but he and his inner circle do not have any good or even more or less acceptable options. Therefore, everything may soon end in “silk cords”, “snuffboxes,” or “long journeys from the windows of multi-storied buildings”, as has happened more than once in the history of Russia and the USSR.
There is also the option of the Hague Tribunal, but it is unlikely, as Putin knows too much, and the interested parties certainly do not need any extra witnesses.
Oleh Bereziuk,
Institute of Global Politics
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