Wednesday, June 1, 2022

(#4868) putin is still with us

     I had really thought that the end of putin would have happened before we hit June. Of course it is always wishful thinking on my part even though the soundness of my logic is still strong. The Russian people are what failed me as I thought they would have had more courage in understanding and reacting to their tyrant. But like many here in the Untied States of America, the disappointment is vast and never ending it seems. One culture of people who are not disappointing are the Ukrainian people. They have said what they were going to do and have not only done it but even more than they said they would. 
     I was wrong about the timing on putin's ending but I am not far off. He is increasingly being made less relevant and with him Russian society. How much more the Kremlin will take of the abject failure of putin to secure victory in Ukraine is surely not long. He may try to appease his countrymen with the new narrative of keeping the Donbas and Crimea but that is not going to happen either. He is losing in every phase of his invasion and although he is dumping all his missiles on eastern Ukraine now his ability to do so for much longer is highly doubtful. That is when the Ukrainian army and volunteers will advance and move the Russian forces back to their side of the border and beyond.
     So I did miscalculate the end of putin before June but I won't be far from accurate when the final end of him comes. He overplayed his hand and now the Russian people are humiliated and dying. Life in Russia has been somewhat isolated from international sanctions so far but not for much longer when the real struggle for food, shelter, clothing and transportation become much harder to acquire. The end for putin is inevitable and now the only unanswered question is when does he diminish to nothing. I say sooner than later and in the meantime his forces will be getting their asses kicked all over Ukrainian soil!

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