Vladimir Putin Had a Dream
The United States government becomes a fifth column as it helps Russia become 'great again.'
Vladimir Putin’s view in Washington as he makes his famous “I had a dream” speech.
When Russia’s president installed Donald Trump into the White House in 2016, he did indeed have a dream that things would work out precisely as they are today. Joe Biden, though, became president and tossed a wrench in the works. Russia returned to being what it is supposed to be — a regional power always brought to heel by its inherent weaknesses and national psychosis.
When Trump was run off like a rabid raccoon, Putin surely had doubts things would turn out so smashingly for him. Then, against all the odds, Trump won again, and now the official policy of the United States is that Russia has “suffered enough.” The time has come for Ukraine to receive the punishment it deserves and for Russia to be welcomed with open arms back into the community of nations.
Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine, in much the way Russians do, for fighting back when the country was invaded three years ago next week. When he isn’t speaking incoherently about how the war never would have happened had he been president, Trump is telling us that Russia has suffered terribly, and so should hold no responsibility for the “stupid war.” Russia should not be required to pay for any of the damage it has done to Ukraine in its three-year quest to genocide the Ukrainian people.
In much the same way, the Red Army obliterated the center of Tallinn, Estonia, and then sat on its hands just across the river from Warsaw. At the same time, the Germans leveled the city during the Warsaw Uprising; Russians are notorious for wiping out the strong and the brave so that what remains are the weak, wounded, and women and children. Then, they install puppet governments, and those countries become the playthings for Moscow. This was the modus operandi across Eastern Europe, and it led to 40 years of misdevelopment for tens of millions of people.
Thanks to President Biden and NATO, Russia was failing miserably in Ukraine. That said, enough success has been made in Ukraine that compromises are necessary. I have long been saying that Ukraine does not stand a chance in a war of attrition. Russia is three times the size, and most importantly, it places no value on human life. Sending thousands of its citizens against well-defended positions only to see 95 percent of them shredded by withering fire means nothing to the average Russian officer. Why? Because that barely-sober officer knows that five percent will eventually succeed, and the goal of gaining a few hundred meters of the battlefield will have been reached.
Russia also recalibrated its entire economy to become a war economy. Ukraine couldn’t do this, in part because of the unending missile attacks and secondly, because it just didn’t have the military-industrial base that Russia did before the war. After a slow and sometimes frustratingly hesitant start, NATO’s support helped Ukraine bring the war to Russia. Nonetheless, Russia’s progress was such that Ukraine could never dislodge them. This is something I have been arguing about for well over a year. Sooner or later, Ukraine would be forced to compromise.
I know enough about Russian and Ukrainian relations to understand that the easternmost regions of Russia have always considered themselves closer to Moscow than Kyiv. I know it is a source of national pride to hold onto those regions, but the average citizen would rather have peace — the color of their passport means a lot less to them than the patriots of western Ukraine. Many people, like some of the more passionate writers here on Medium, will say that I am siding with Moscow — and I will tell them to eff themselves because, as I will never side with Trump, so I won’t with Putin — but for the sake of the Ukrainian men, women, and children still alive, it is time to let those war-shredded regions go to Moscow.
Yes, it sucks, and it hurts, but it will only get worse if this war continues for years.
That said, there can be no way under the sun that Moscow is not punished for this war of genocide. Some of the first acts of the Trump administration were to dismantle the government’s tools for putting sanctions against Russian billionaires in place. Trump is signaling to Putin that he will no longer punish him or the war’s financiers, giving them carte blanche to ratchet up their attacks on Ukraine without having to worry about any repercussions.
The U.S. government is no longer an enemy of Russia but an ally. The U.S. has even become more accepting of Moscow’s aggression than Beijing. Never before in our history have we so unilaterally dismantled our power before the country that has since 1921 been our sworn enemy — except for a brief eight-year period between 1992 and 2000. Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine, Europe, and the American people is not just criminal, but it is treason, and we know what happens to traitors.
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States (18 U.S. Code 2381 Treason).
Sadly, though, SCOTUS has cleared the path for Trump, and nothing he does as president can result in prosecution.