(#5361) The end of the reign of putin will bring about greater democracy

      In my lifetime never has a man held so much sway over whether democracy flourishes or not. I was raised under the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union but this is so much more pervasive. Then it was the logic of a mutually assured destruction that kept each side safe from an ultimate world calamity but with putin there is no mutually assured zero sum logic. He wants what he wants and he will not take no for an answer even if it means total destruction around him. So before he gets to that point the plan should be to remove him from power.
     However that removal process proceeds, it needs to be done before putin has his way with his revenge on the world. I am trying to put myself into his shoes and think like him in a most despicable way. He will not care about his offspring, nor his immediate family, he will only want what makes him the giver of the last word. Throughout all his war crimes he has shown that his care for how history perceives him is nothing to him. He doesn't think in the terms of destiny, only revenge. He is a petty man who cannot stand not getting his way. He should never have been allowed to remain as the leader of Russia, but nothing about the past can be changed.
     However the future is yet to be written and anything is still possible to not only make the world a more beautiful place but to stop any madness he may conclude is his destiny. He is not the kind of person who can be trusted with the life and liberty of any people. His deranged sense of entitlement and deserves has gone beyond any boundary of normalcy. He is not for any people, not even those who are his followers. His strategy is to have everything he wants until he gets everything he wants. There is no middle ground with him. His few allies now are not as attuned to his agenda as they think they are and they themselves will find that their decision to ally with him will bring them no relief however the future plays out.