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 imminent plans to invade the Ukraine. U.S. intelligence had the right of it and plenty of other nations added warnings as well.
Even they probably hoped to be wrong.
The idea was simply too unappealing. A full-scale military invasion of the Ukraine would throw the world into chaos; a chaos no nation really needed after the two-year ravages of a global pandemic.
Russia is no exception and has suffered the slings and arrows of COVID19 along with the rest of the world.
Foreign policy experts, government officials, journalists and human rights organizations just couldn’t see any logic in a Russian invasion of the Ukraine in February 2022.
Why would Vladimir Putin elect to put the Russian people through the pains of an economic crisis triggered by an unnecessary act of military aggression?