Putin's Transition from President to Dictator

If the Russian sheep accept this nuance, could it end their love for him?

Russians themselves will tell you that they are “sheep.” Well, actually, they like to apply the mumbo-jumbo of cultural interpretations and say things like, “We think and react collectively.” And to this, I say: “Baaaaah-baaaah.” Sheep, folks.

Vladimir Putin has herded the Russian nation straight into full-fledged fascism. Modern Russia is a fascist state and differs from Nazi Germany in only one regard: No concentration camps.

While I don’t think Russia would resort to this kind of systematic evil that the German nation did beginning in 1933, only ending when its threat was eliminated on May 8th, 1945, there is so much that has gone on today in Russia since it launched its war of genocide against Ukraine that I would never have imagined possible. So, it is possible that we can add a “yet” to the above sentence.

Russia doesn’t have any concentration camps yet.

Vladimir Putin can no longer lay claim to be Russia’s president, though. He is clearly the Russian dictator. The laughable notion that he could not be selected to be Russia’s “president” in 2024 is just another example of the Russian nation playing the children’s game, “office,” or better yet, playing “normal society.” Putin will be Russia’s next president because dictators don’t lose. They play a role and pretend that the society around them is the one the people have freely chosen, but in fact, it is just a reflection of the worst impulse of the said dictator.

The core values of Russian society fully mirror the worst impulses of Putin: Violence, racism, repression, paranoia, whiny-lying and murder prevail. Russian society crushes political descent by tearing apart families, sentencing innocent people to prison for decades, and throwing dissenters out of windows. In an act of barbarism, Russia’s dictator sent his poorly-trained and hungover troops across the border of a neighboring country, which has resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars of destruction in Ukraine, thousands of dead innocent civilians, not to mention well over two hundred thousand Russia troops killed or maimed.

Polish president Andrzej Duda, speaking from the experience of a nation that has been repeatedly scarred by Russian crimes over the centuries, summed it up perfectly.

“We know that when the Russians come, they rape women, they kill people, they deport people to the East… (We) know that the Russians must be stopped,” Duda said (Duda Warns of Russian Revanchism).

Putin, the dictator, is a frail, immoral, and grotesque figure who hides behind the blessings of Moscow’s Taliban-Russian Orthodox church. This cult promulgates genocide, hate, and executions with sledgehammers.

The saddest part of this transition from president to dictator is that most Russians regard his behavior positively today. Many are even beginning to mirror his hate, violence, and immorality as they gleefully set up new lives in the former homes of Ukrainians killed in places like Mariupol.

Russia remains an eternally damned nation with no place in the family of modern nations. It didn’t last even 30 years before it imploded into a cauldron of diseased amorality. A bully always picking fights with nations much smaller than it and incapable of fighting its way out of a wet paper bag, Russia blames the world for all of its woes and never accepts responsibility for anything — never, not once, has there been an instance in history that Russia admitted faulty — and, simply put, lies about everything — by the way, lying in Russia is a common as flossing at night before going to bed. Russians have no moral issues with lying.

In a nutshell, Russia, like its loser dictator, is a nation today filled with losers. The losers are anyone who supports Putin.

Russia is a fascist dictatorship and must be treated accordingly. And just like we did the last time when a fascist dictatorship started invading its neighbors, we must fight to end the reign of this terrorist and not stop until he and all of his supporters are in prison or no longer.