The End of Putin Has Begun — Full Historical Analysis of The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Fundraising Special)
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Delusions of peace have been shattered. Europe is at war. All those previously denying Putin’s bellicose insanity have fallen silent as battle tanks are rolling over Ukraine’s sovereignty and Russian rockets are pummeling innocent civilians inside their apartments. The inescapably tragic loss of life for tens of thousands of people is only a matter of time now. Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis has the world ever been at such a high risk of a catastrophic nuclear exchange.
Yet those of us familiar with modern European history are experiencing an eerie sense of deja vu. Those less so will find the following analysis even more enlightening. Also included at the end of the post are some of the recent videos from Ukraine, to help assess the latest state of this failing invasion (WARNING, GRAPHIC FOOTAGE).
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” — Mark Twain
“putin = nazi = hitler” — Balancing Act
Policy of Appeasement
To fully comprehend the unfolding disaster, we have to compare these two images, from 1938 and 2022.
On the first, we have Neville Chamberlain (then-UK Prime Minister) meeting Adolf Hitler, shortly before signing the Munich Agreement in 1938. Also known as Munich Betrayal (more on that later), it was a direct precursor to World War II and emblematic of the catastrophic policy of appeasement. This policy consisted of granting more and more power and territory to hitler in the egregiously erroneous belief that this will placate him into stopping his aggression. One glaring problem with that macabre plan was the fact that it was giving hitler exactly what he wanted, while costing him nothing. That way he amassed enough military capacity to wipe out France in 43 days.
On the second photo, the current President of France, Emanuel Macron, is meeting an unhinged lunatic, intent and capable of unleashing a nuclear Armaggeddon on planet-wide scale. The fact that the meeting was held in Moscow only days before Putin invaded Ukraine is itself a stunning anomaly. Even more fantastically, it was then followed by another Moscow visit, from Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was the next in line to offer his vassalic umbrage to Europe’s gas station manager. Germany in particular has been disgustingly corrupted by dirty Russian oil money. The country was also a party to Munich Betrayal’s cousin, the infamous Minsk Agreements (Minsk Betrayal, anyone?).
The parallels are unmistakable. Putin is unitizing hitler’s playbook by abusing diplomacy to achieve his expansionist goals.
“Protecting/Uniting Ethnic Germans/Russians”
Another staggering similarity between putin and hitler is their shared casus belli of allegedly protecting their ethnic kin (vis-a-vis Lebensraum and Russian World). At this point it becomes more and more apparent that putin is merely an unoriginal psycho instead of an evil genius. But let’s soldier on with our rigorous analysis, because proof doesn’t grow on trees(©).
The short version is that USA=France, Ukraine=Czechoslovakia, Belarus=Austria, and Poland is, well, just Poland. Also Baltics=Baltics. Ok I’ll stop now. Just kidding! Hungary=Soviet Union.
Still want the long version? I knew you would! So here it goes.
Let’s start off with Austria. It was annexed by the nazis in March of 1938, months before the Munich Betreyal. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg was initially opposed to joining the nazis, but succumbed to their pressure due to stiff internal opposition. Eventually, nazis just marched across the Austrian border, completely unopposed and often welcomed by the some of the Austrians.
In the contemporary Belarus scenario, its dictator Alexander Lukashenko was similarly put under immense pressure by widespread opposition protests and had to seek unification with Russia. In an already familiar fashion, Russian troops occupied Belarus, welcomed by the pro-putinist (aka pro-nazi) faction within Belarus.
And we’re only just getting started.
Next, it is Czechoslovakia’s turn. Hitler baselessly claimed that ethnic Germans were being persecuted there, and marched in to annex its Sudetenland region, with the whole country following shortly thereafter. All of this happened with the explicit acquiescence of France and the UK. Furthermore, this was despite the fact that France had concluded a 1924 alliance agreement and 1925 military pact with the Czechoslovak Republic. Hence the “betrayal” part.
Almost identically, Putin claims that Ukraine is currently persecuting ethnic Russians on its territory, and cites it as one of his chief reasons for the current 2022 full-scale military invasion. This follows Putin’s previous annexation of Crimea and Donbass regions from Ukraine in 2014.
Since France betrayed Czechoslovakia in Munich, it was indirectly responsible for precipitating the German invasion.
Similarly, US President Joe Biden recently announced that the US will not be fighting against the Russian occupation. In a direct parallel with France, US is also treaty-bound to ensure Ukraine’s security, as per the Budapest Memorandum.
As far as Poland and the Baltics, they were sandwiched between two great powers, left extremely vulnerable and were quickly overrun during WWII. A similar escalation scenario could also be a possible in the current war, with NATO preemptively deploying extra troops to the same regions.
The final analogy is between the Soviet Union and Hungary. In September 1939, Soviet troops invaded Poland in sync with the nazis from opposite sides, dividing the spoils of war . Today, Hungary is increasingly asserting its dominance over Ukraine’s Western regions, and is a loyal ally of putin.
Convinced yet? If anyone still rejects the direct comparison between hitler and putin, let me know in the comments. I will be happy to reeducate you.
World’s Highest Paid Gas Station Manager
Now that we’ve aced our history lesson, let’s dive deeper into Vladimir Putin’s modern reenactment of hitler. Putin, a former KGB agent stationed in East Germany under the Soviet occupation, got elected as Russia’s president by bombing inhabited apartment buildings in Moscow. The ensuing anti-terrorist and pro-war hysteria boosted putin’s ratings enough to get him elected.
He ruthlessly kills and poisons his political opponents with banned chemical weapons (Nemtsov, Navalny). Putin is deeply paranoid, and even fabricated his own version of Harry Potter’s Voldemort, by not daring to ever utter his chief political opponent Alexey Navalny’s name in public. Putin is so singularly focused on growing his personal power that he treats the Russian people as little more than raw material for his own demented fantasies. His foreign policy is entirely driven by desire to stay in power and control his immense wealth in perpetuity. Putin understands that allowing Russians to be exposed to the free Western democratic society will inexorably make them rise up against his dehumanizing tyranny.
The only practical reason that putin is able to keep doing this is due to his already mentioned occupation, as Europe’s gas station manager. Europe is hopelessly reliant on supplies of Russian oil and gas. Germany, perhaps the saddest example of this, bought 32% of its natural gas supplies from Russian pipelines in December 2021. Earlier this month, its former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was even nominated to join the board of a state-owned Russian energy company.
A Bunker Baby Story
We are finally ready to contemplate putin’s inescapable demise. Using the so far strikingly accurate nazi analogies yet again, let’s consider putin’s most likely endgame.
hitler’s plan was to Blitzkrieg his way through the Soviet Union, rapidly eliminating all enemy resistance and achieving swift victory.
The plan’s failure was made inevitable by the stiff resistance from the Soviet Union, which was supplied by the United States though the Lend-Lease program in 1941–1945, to the tune of $180 billion in today’s dollars. Here are some of the supplies that the United States provided:
- 400,000 jeeps & trucks
- 14,000 airplanes
- 13,000 tanks
- 4.5 million tons of food
To end World War II, the combined coalition of the Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom and many others eventually defeated hitler, and entered Berlin in May 1945. To avoid capture, hitler, who had been hiding out in a bunker, committed suicide. The European chapter of the war was over a few days later.
In putin’s case, the situation is exponentially more pathetic. His attempt at Blitzkrieg has been a failed genocidal war crime against the Ukrainian, Russian and Belorussian people. He made the same mistake of targeting Ukrainian civilians instead of the military, which was what hitler did in WWII in Britain during the Blitz.
Putin is willing to fire heavy missiles at occupied apartment buildings.
The Ukrainian military has been nothing but defiant.
Russian military losses have been estimated by the Ukrainian side to reach over 3,500 people.
There is even a video of Russian soldiers choosing to join the Ukrainian side voluntarily. The rest of the Russian army should follow this example.
The West is finally implementing strong financial sanctions and providing increasing amounts of military aid to Ukraine. Even the Germans appear to have shaken off the spell of propaganda and corruption to change their long standing policy and supply weapons to Ukraine.
“Germany on Saturday reversed a historic policy of never sending weapons to conflict zones, saying the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an epochal moment that imperiled the entire post-World War II order across Europe.
The decision was an abrupt change in course, coming after Berlin clung to its initial position for weeks despite the rising Russian menace and pressure from EU and NATO allies.
On Saturday, Berlin finally bowed to that pressure, and to the reality that Russia is encircling Ukrainian cities”
Source: “Germany to send Ukraine weapons in historic shift on military aid”, Politico
Crucially, there is overwhelming video evidence of destroyed Russian weaponry, which indicates that Ukrainians are holding strong. (WARNING! GRAPHIC FOOTAGE!).
So ,with more and more certainty, putin seems to be skipping straight to the bunker part of hitler’s fate, with a “bunker baby” twist. That is because he actually happens to spend a lot of time in his own bunker.
ZZZwastika
The unwelcome rebranding of swastika comes in the form of a white letter “Z” and white bandages, used to mark Russian forces. It is almost like putin is giving up ahead of time, by wrapping his troops in the color of surrender.
Glory to Ukraine! Слава Україні! Героям слава!
putin is never going to be satisfied with just Ukraine, same as hitler. If successful in Ukraine, next time he will put all of NATO at risk. The whole civilized world needs to snap out of its pre-WWII isolationist mentality and rally around Ukraine. By uniting a strong and diverse coalition of nations in opposition to putin, we can prove that tyranny will not stand in the 21st century.
The West should take all of the Russian Central Bank reserves that it is freezing, and redirect them to support Ukraine. It should complete Russia‘s cutoff from SWIFT payment network. NATO should maximize the amount of urgently needed supplies that it is already sending to Ukraine, as well as implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Even Elon Musk is providing his Starlink satellite internet service for free to help Ukrainians.
putin is quickly turning Russia into a pariah state like North Korea. Since Russians are unable to topple their unhinged despot themselves, they will have to pay with their lives, and Ukrainians’ lives, to be defeated in this asinine invasion of their peace-loving neighbor, and that will finally put an end to the reign of the mad king.
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