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The Russian People Must Remove Vladimir Putin
There is only one sure way out of this conflict without escalation.
Americans and everyone else around the world hoping for a return to pre-COVID19 normalcy in 2022 were bitterly disappointed two weeks ago when Russian President and former KGB strongman Vladimir Putin unexpectedly decided to invade Ukraine.
Well, it wasn’t completely unexpected. Not everyone was caught be surprise.
For weeks prior to the attack, the Biden Administration had been warning the world of an imminent incursion into the Ukraine by Russian military forces. Plenty of smart people in media- conservatives, progressives and independents alike- just couldn’t believe it.
Perhaps they didn’t want to.
“The President and his party are merely trying on a distraction heading into a tough mid-term,” these media cynics insisted in near unison. Their theory- that the Russian invasion was an invention of the Biden Administration for reasons best known only to itself and Vladimir Putin had no plans whatsoever to move on Ukraine- was a popular one with good reason.
It was much more appealing than the alternative.
The Biden Administration was, as everyone grudgingly acknowledges in retrospect, absolutely correct and telling the truth about Vladimir Putin’s…