Putin is a Gravely Wounded, Trapped Animal
Putin is a Gravely Wounded, Trapped Animal
The loss of Wagner and Prigozhin will make him desperate
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Putin has been gravely wounded by the events of the last week, regardless of how people spin it. This makes him a very dangerous animal, a totalist authoritarian with nuclear weapons whose holy war has suddenly and precipitously backfired.
Yevgeny Prigozhin was the head of the neo-Nazi terrorist paramilitary Wagner Group that formed to do Putin’s dirty work in Africa, Ukraine and many other theaters outside Russia’s borders. The deal was that as long as Wagner accomplished their mission, Prigozhin was entitled to plunder and steal from the locals. This made Prigozhin rich.
When Prigozhin got pushed too far in Ukraine by Putin and his generals, where Prigozhin was losing money and men in great quantities, he had what can only be described as a tantrum. In the process, he disclosed the real start of the war on Ukraine and exploded Putin’s propaganda about his motivations, ie. Putin’s projection of “denazification.”
More incredibly, Prigozhin turned his army 180-degrees and drove a large column of armored vehicles and tanks deep into Russia — within 120 miles of Moscow.
Any speculation about foreign intelligence involvement or that this was 11-dimensional chess is nonsense. Putin, bluntly, freaked out, got in his jet, and turned off the transponder. He was digging trenches in Moscow. He looked weak, scared and feckless.
Stress tends to bring people’s true character out. He was utterly humiliated and his subsequent appearances looked haunted. This was a massive blow to a very fragile, messianic ego. That sort of thing tends to have personal consequences. But this messianic ego has nukes.
While in the process of writing this article, Putin arrested one of his top generals for siding with Prigozhin. This is typical of strongmen losing power. Their paranoia, however justified, makes them turn their anger inward on their own people, before lashing out. This purge will not stop here.
More alarming, is the fact that both Dugin and Lavrov are effectively saying the same thing — which is that the “Special Military Operation” has failed and now it is total war on “the Ukrainian army of the US and NATO.”
Ukrainian military intelligence asserts that the Kremlin has already “drafted and approved” a “plan to blow up Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — which would make Chernobyl seem like a puff of smoke. This plant supplies a massive amount of power to Europe and it would make a huge part of Ukraine uninhabitable.
Unfortunately this is not unthinkable under this set of circumstances, and I hope there is a plan to avert this and a plan for how to handle the consequences.
Here is the heartbreakingly underreported war crime of Putin blowing up the Dnipro River Dam. It killed hundreds of people under a massive column of water and made a large populated part of Ukraine uninhabitable.
Here are the latest rantings of genocidal Putin strategist Aleksandr Dugin calling for a “sharp, unexpected, hard and fatal” strike against the “rabid, poisonous squirrels” of Ukraine. This is nothing short of Nazi rhetoric.
Now Prigozhin, who flew around in Russia for several days on his plane after striking a deal with Putin to stop his advance on Moscow, has disappeared into Belarus, under the “supervision” of Putin marionette Lukashenko.
Recently, in a highly unusual move, Putin sent tactical nukes to Belarus. Now Prigozhin is there — the war criminal whose men tortured, raped and murdered countless Ukrainians.
All of these fascists see the end for themselves, but they are messianic sociopaths who will stop at nothing to retain their power.
I’m not going to sugar-coat it, I believe Putin is going to do something drastic. I just hope our intelligence services are doing their jobs to avert the most world-altering possibilities.
Something to consider
Greetings Jim:
30 years. It has been 30 years since a pair of kidnappings happened that garnered our attention in the US. One was local, and the other was more national. The local one, at least for me, was the Katie Beers kidnapping which lasted about 2 weeks and ended when John Esposito confessed to abducting her. I remember that time well because it happened close to where I live in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. And it was one of those cases where the victim is found, and people stop talking about it until years later. The national case was Polly Klass (1981-1993). Klass was kidnapped and then murdered within the span of an hour or so. However, it was not until Richard Allen Davis confessed to dumping her body two months after her death that the case was resolved.
Now here is the kicker. When Katie Beers left John Esposito’s lair on January 13, 1993, people came to realize that much of Beers’ family life was under the rubric of abuse. She left those relationships and has been in a better position ever since. With respect to Polly Klass, there is still the perception that the Klass household was loving and caring. And I suppose it was. Yet, on the day of Richard Davis's sentencing in 1996, he said that Polly Klass had said among her last words “just don’t do me like my dad.” Now, that has always been striking a chord with me. Because that implied an incestuous father-daughter relationship was taking place. One that was not transactional. Of course, nothing concrete has been documented, in part because of Polly Klass’ death. It just would not surprise me to have this theory made true. Having said that, we know that both women came from abusive households. Yet one was able to have a litany of people be aware about it and seek her release from captivity (Katie Beers), yet with Polly Klass the real terror lay within Klass house behind closed doors. Indeed, I had always wondered if Polly Klass willingly allowed her murder to happen as a way of having one final act of autonomy over her own being. We might never really know.
I point this out to you since the current iteration of the Republican Party has regretfully made child kidnapping a main pillar of their policies. In that, they keep mentioning the need to protect children and the proposals to send every child that is trafficked back to their homes. Well, not all homes of origin were and are a loving environment. And not all children who have been kidnapped and/or trafficked for sex would like to return to their homes. Plus, as we have known, the more conservatives make explicit their protestations on what they perceive as a lack of morality, the more obvious it is to me that these conservatives and Q/Trump/Flynn adherents are amongst the worst in abusing their own children. So, I ask you, would it be better to let people know of the nuances of this issue? I think you would agree that this “save our children” crap, be it under the guise of trafficking or more obviously going against non-heterosexuals, is not genuine. We need to call these people out on their lies. And we need a newer children’s bill of rights. The lack of trust in adults with their children is concerning and will need to be addressed. This can hopefully prevent the next time these events occur.
Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. - Albert Einstein
Best Wishes and Kindest Regards,
Robert Kelly
This intuitively feels right, unfortunately. I hope for the best and fear the worst.
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