Monster Putin Kills Children As Young As 5. Blockade His Enablers.

Abstract: The advertized ferocity of Putin’s attempted annihilation of Ukraine is unsurpassed. There is now direct declarative admissions from RUSSIAN commanders that small children are deliberately killed, to foster the esprit de corps a la Putin. Even the Nazis didn’t sink that low for all to see.

But fancy Western electronics still makes its way to Putin’s mass murdering machine. Historical examples show why one should blockade the countries which provide Putin with advanced electronics he needs for his weapons.

While excesses such as Athens’ annihilation of “neutral” Melos have to be avoided, violations of blockades by pseudo-neutrals or outright allies, enabled fascist Germany to make wars for years. Twice. 

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Denial and illusions must be rejected: Putin’s war is not just a fight between human democratic nature and the fascist instinct Russian orcs learned to leverage. 

It’s a struggle for the survival of humanity.

The Russian Private Military Corporations Wagner ordered killing children as young as five (5) years old [1]. This is an old infamous trick, already found in Carthage: killing children is an excellent mental glue among perpetrators.  See follies that bind: God ordered Abraham to kill his son, and Abraham agreed, because obeying the boSS is the ultimate principle of fascism (as promoted by the Bible). 

World war indeed: More than 50 democracies help Ukraine militarily. Democracies have recognized that oligarchies armed with nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence are not the future.

So it is high time to act as if we were in a struggle for existence, because we are. Yet, Russia heavily relies on Western electronics for its more advanced weapons systems. Advanced French night vision, sold after 2014, is found on the most advanced Russian tanks.AMD, Analog Devices, Infineon, Intel and Texas Instruments shipments came after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Intel kept at it until April 2022…

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BLOCKADE TRAITORS TO DEMOCRACY:

Tyranosopher: Powers favorable to Putin, and, or Xi are hostile to democracy. If they actively help the tyrants by sending them advanced Western tech, as is presently the case, they should be considered enemies of democracy and thus of humanity having a future, and treated accordingly. 

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The Melian Objection: 

Simplicia: Those with a passing knowledge of Greek history may object that you are suggesting to make the mistake of Athens with the island city-state of Melos. In 416 BCE, in the middle of the Peloponnesian War, Athens sent a fleet to Melos and ordered that the Melians join the Delian League (Athens’ empire) and pay a tribute to Athens (the tribute corresponded to the upkeep of a trireme for 18 months). The Melians refused to submit, arguing that they were a neutral state, not part of the Athenian Empire, and of Spartan descent.

The Athenians then laid siege to Melos, and after six months, captured the city, killed all the men and enslaved the survivors. The Athenian historian and general, Thucydides, records the events in his work “History of the Peloponnesian War”. The Athenians showed no mercy to the Melians, despite their pleas and their claims of neutrality. 

This event was couched in a famous dialogue by Thucydides, and is often cited as an example of Athens’ overreaching ambition and her willingness to use ultimate violence to assert her dominance over other city-states. The Athenians’ treatment of the Melians was seen as a violation of basic humanity by the principle of “might makes right“. Ultimately, Athens’ harsh treatment of Melos may have contributed to her downfall, as many city-states started to fear and hate her.

Tyranosopher: Thucydides explained that the purpose of conquering Melos was to demonstrate the strength and sternness of Athens to discourage the island territories of her empire from rebelling, in light of Sparta’ s ferocity. Moreover there were technical strategic reasons pertaining to trireme war for forcing Melos [2].

Simplicia: So aren’t you proposing to exhibit strength and sternness? And have the West antagonize neutral powers?

Tyranosopher: No. Melos, although ancestrally Spartan, did not obviously help Sparta during the Peloponnesian War. Melos looked neutral, while the truth was more nuanced: Melian non-help of Athens hindered the democracy [2].

Powers helping Putin are definitely NOT neutral, they help the child-killing tyrant crucially, and they can’t claim Russian ancestry (as Melos claimed Spartan ancestry). Moreover, the idea is not to submit Putinophiles militarily, just to extend the tech blockade to them, as if they were part of the Russian empire… because not only they are, but this is crucial to defeat Putin.

Simplicia: Still, I maintain, your proposal to extent war to neutral seems foolhardy. Didn’t work for Athens, and look where we are, still no direct democracy. 

Tyranosopher: What sank Athens was not the Melos story, however tragic. 

Simplicia: Yes, but that “strength and sternness” impelled a mood of ferocity, and that led in turn Athens to attack Syracuse and execute her successful high command, in totto… And those were the enormous errors which made Athens lose the war.

Tyranosopher: OK, you look correct about impelling a mood of excess. However, Athens had big excuses. The stakes were so enormous, we feel the consequences to this day. So Athens may have been rendered mad from other reasons. Sparta was a bit like Putin: so as not to lose, Sparta made an alliance with dictatorial Persia, which financed Sparta’s fleet, the fleet which ultimately defeated Athens. Executing all the generals and admirals, though, was worse than a crime, it was Athens shooting herself in the head. And that led directly to defeat and devastation.  

I am not advocating hubris or madness, nor attacking Armenia or Georgia. I am advocating a high tech blockade, with extremely stiff prison sentences if violated on the Western side. Launch trials for high treason. 

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When A Tyrant Attacks And A Democracy Defends, There Is No Neutrality:

Historically, many world wars have started slowly, typically because the good guys defended reluctantly whatever it was worth defending that made them good. Cynics and lump-thinkers will sneer that I am naive to believe there are good and bad guys, war is always bad, blah blah blah; but actually not just that, there are good and bad guys, but there are also good and bad issues [3].) The propaganda in the fascist Kaiserreich had been Between the start of the invasion of China by the Japanese military and stopping US oil making that invasion possible, a full decade elapsed. During that decade, Japan, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany slowly ramped up ever more outrageous behaviors and invasions. But for France, democracies kept looking elsewhere, and making deals with the fascist powers (although perpetrators were expelled from the League Of Nations,predecessor of the UN, and starting in 1938, France and Britain tried to get Hitler to stop). Some nations, in both WWi and WWII became wealthy from breaking the blockade and helping the fascists. Not just the USA… Not just the Netherlands, or Sweden… Not just Switzerland…  

In World War One, the German Kaisereich was able to wage war because “neutral” countries (including the US, Netherlands, etc.) provided it with indispensable goods which skirted the Franco-British blockade. France and Britain protested to Washington in vain. And of course France and Britain took no serious hostile actions against the US. After the US joined France and Britain, the production of German high explosives collapsed to one tenth of the French production… in 1918.

“Neutral” countries are objective allies of fascist invaders if they make their invasion possible. Under this definiton, the USA helped imperial fascist Japan conquer China, for a decade, as US business provided the oil. A reason France lost in May 1940 was from sending the French mobile reserve to the Netherlands, which had been neutral until Hitler attacked it… just with the purpose of attracting the French, the most ridiculous, obvious trap… But it worked.

The democracies shouldn’t be afraid to force regimes which help the Kremlin to take sides. Typically the only power those regimes have is skirting around sanctions. So sanction them.  

Sanction them in turn, in all ways.    

After Athens was half destroyed by Sparta, and had to surrender, it went through an eclipse. Its spirit was not destroyed though, and Thebes in turn defeated Sparta, yanking away the city state it had enslaved. Then fascist Macedonia destroyed Thebes and Athens had not recovered enough to resist the successors of Alexander… When Romans came around, they used to make fun of Athens’ pretense at reliving her past. In any case, here we are 24 centuries later, and direct democracy, Athenian style, is still out of reach. As Putin gets small children killed (instead of enslaving them as the worst Greeks would have done), one must fear the next democratic eclipse to be worse…  

Democracy is protected by power, and that comes greatly from superior tech. So one has to protect that superiority… And that must require to regain financial supremacy and control: right now autocratic regimes can hide their finances, and even mingle them, not just with the enormous wealth of individual “family offices” but also with the wealth of Putin’s Russia… Offering a back channel way to acquire Western tech (Turkey is a potential case in point…)

The weaker democracy is defended now, the harder it will be to save it in the long term. The fate of humanity is in balance, as only democracy can provide humanity with enough intelligence, decency, authenticity.

An entangled world it is, but evil, mixed with the rest, is explosive.

Patrice Ayme

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[1] One Wagner fighter, Azamat Yaldarov, admitted that Prigozhin ordered his unit to kill children while taking control of Soledar, and that he buried 18 children that he killed in Krasnodar Krai and Saratov and Kirov oblasts.[13] Yaldarov emphasized that Prigozhin gave the order for Wagner fighters to ”eliminate” everyone in Soledar, and that Yaldarov was specifically ordered to kill children. Another Wagner fighter and commander of a reconnaissance unit, Aleksey Savich, told the interviewer that he fired on his own men for disobedience and that he personally witnessed the executions of 80 Wagner fighters for refusing to follow orders. Savich claimed that Wagner’s command gave the order to kill all civilians in Bakhmut aged 15 and older, and that his unit killed 23 civilians, 10 of whom were unarmed teenagers.

Savich recounted other instances from operations in Bakhmut and Soledar in which he murdered children as young as five years old and other civilians.

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[2] No precise allegations of Melian help to Sparta exist (the Navy argument below may have been well known at the time). Some allege Melian “open hostility” to Athens, and archeology indicates 12  kilograms of Melian silver may have ended in Sparta. 

As the war dragged on, the Athenians felt that their previous leniency made them look weak, encouraging revolts. The rising brutality of the Athenians responded to Spartan brutality, which had been extreme from the beginning. After the massacre committed by the Spartans at Plataea in 429 BC, the Athenians habitually massacred their own prisoners.

Moreover, Greek warships, the triremes, needed to be beached every night, in practice, as it was impossible to sleep on them, they carried no provisions, and they got water logged (thus slower). So Melian “neutrality”, considering the western Aegan position of Melos, was a serious hindrance to the Delian League… That explains why Athens felt so hostile. 

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[3] The good versus bad debate hinges on looking exactly at what is going on, at some point in space and time. For example the Franco-English wars are full of the dance between good and evil, or even good versus good, one way, then the other…. Wars against Louis XIV of France were mostly caused by Louis’ persecution of the Protestants. He had definitely turned into a bad guy with a bad cause.. And the French who don’t see this yet, embrace the bad side, just as US citizens who embrace the Confederacy… Actually worse, as the Confederates battled to preserve what they knew, whereas Louis created his own horror….

This map explains much of the present cultural geopolitics. At full extent, the Mongol empire was even larger than this: Mongol scouting parties reached the Adriatic, and there were major battles in Poland. The Mongols turned around, because they were afraid of the Franks and what happened to their ancestors the Huns (according to the Secret History of the Mongols relating the acrimonious debate among the top lieutenants of Ghenghis Khan, Subutai, Batu, etc.).

It is not that the Mongols were bad in all ways, far from it. But the Mongols’ military junta, with its top generals, like Subutai and princes, or Khan, like Ogedei and Batu, definitely broke (relatively) democratic Kyivan Rus… And annihilated Kyiv, before making the Kremlin strongman, Alexander Nevsky… Prince of Kyiv!

Bait And Switch: The Devil, Western Plutocracy, And Vlad, World Impaler

Committed by their tremendous crimes, Putin and his associates now believe that their “meat waves” tactics in Ukraine will bring them victory, as they reckon that the brainwashed Russian people feel Ukraine is worth the sacrifice. The alternative, for the Kremlin gang, is arrest and death. 

The leaders of the West pretend that nobody saw this coming [1]… When it was obvious since Putin’s genocide in Chechnya in 1999, that Putin was a despicable mass murderer. Actually Putin was their man, the man of the West, an employee of global plutocracy, in charge of diverting Russian resources out of Russia, from capital, to gas and oil. The relentless Kremlin tyranny was an instrument of extraction of Russian economic product to put it under global banking management, thus increasing the power of said banking. Never mind that it blew up the price of real estate in Western Europe’s attractive areas. 

The Western “leadership” is made mostly of arrogant twerps who listen carefully to the “Powers That Be”… those in power, generally tycoons, plutocrats and their attached think tanks, institutions and universities.

The West is ruled mostly by so-called “representative democracies”, which are neither representative, nor democracies. The nature of these regimes is closer to representative oligarchies. 

Oligarchy means: the rule of the few.

The ultimate state of oligarchy is plutocracy, generally viewed as the power of money, but, more generally, the power of evil (aka, Pluto, Satan, Hades, Diablo, etc.). The historical mechanism is always the same: to stay in power, an oligarchy has no choice but to opt for the worst means, because nothing else would do (Putin himself demonstrates this). 

Ever since the direct democracies of Antiquity fell, most of the time, in most places in the West, plutocrats and their bankers have managed states. Naturally, they prefer to deal with dictatorships. .

This is how the tyrants of the Twentieth Century arose often in cooperation with the mightiest Western plutocrats. A well-known example is Henry Ford who inspired and financed Adolf Hitler. An example that is less known, but perhaps even more spectacular and instructive was Averell Harriman and Stalin. Harriman was viewed, inside the Kremlin, as the real leader of Russia. Among other things, Harriman financed the Baku oil fields and insured early massive US help to Russia in 1941 (help which had been refused to France a year earlier, in spite of treaties with France…) 

The global plutocracy which controls France, Germany and the corrupt West in general, bet heavily on Putin. The way global plutocracy sees it, it had nothing to lose, everything to gain… even if, and especially if, Putin messed it up! More than a century ago glaobal plutocracy already used that strategy with Lenin, Stalin and Mussolini (plutocratic support was then extended to dictatorial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Franco… by extending oil, lines of credit, equipment, etc.). Plutocracy is tyranny friendly as its fundamental purpose is fundamentally evil (Pluto). 

Eastern Europe has been at the receiving end of these bad treatments for centuries thanks in part from selfish, self-absorbed Western European indifference…in 1240 the Mongols killed Kyiv, and put the Kremlin’s Alexander Nevsky, in control… Of Kyiv! At the time, and since, Eastern Europe observed that Western Europe did not come to the rescue of Kyivan Rus against the Mongols… although it launched plenty of crusades at the time, including against  Novgorod… although Anna Princess of Kyiv was ruling queen of France in 1051-60 CE.

Macron is fundamentally a banker who used his connection to the state at his advantage… A particular case of Western finance and Davos (WEF) welcoming and using Putin, that is the Russian state, to their advantage. Each time Rosatom sells a nuclear reactor, France gets a billion dollars… Rosatom sells the most nuclear reactors in the world.

If anything, the present crisis exposes the enormous corruption in Western Europe, which laundered in plain sight the money that Russian oligarchs stole from Russia. “Socialist” ex Chancellor Schroder set up the Nord Stream pipelines, while French Total set up the giant gas liquefaction installations in Siberia. 

Putin, his evil accomplices and his oligarchs could claim they have been tricked and enticed. They actually started to have their vile Western propagandists push for that point of view:”It’s not us, but them who enticed us to steal children in Ukraine!” 

But it is neither here, nor there. Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and Franco also went through the same process. After they committed their massive war crimes, they were the massive criminals. The role that Western plutocrats played in enticing and enabling them has been carefully covered up, and is never mentioned. Yes, that role should be exposed.

But most self-declared leftists are actually posers who are careful to not go the bottom of things… lest they get less of a following.  

As a personal aside, I was banned from commenting in several European media, for example the European Tribune, and the reason given was that I pointed out the financing of Hitler and Stalin by Western banks and financiers… I was told, in writing, that the bankers who financed those media asked me to be banned. That was more than a decade ago, and both yours truly and this general subject disappeared from much of the information space… Not coincidentally, Obama “reset” his relationship with Putin and gave him a greenlight to invade Crimea… And its offshore oil deposits…    

If Putin had been able to exploit Ukraine, as he does Russia, global plutocracy would have been happy. But, after being stunned by the invasion of Crimea, which it did not resist, Ukraine fought back triumphantly when the Donbas was invaded. Russia, France, the US, the UK, and the dictator in China had clearly violated the 1994 Budapest accord, according to which Ukraine gave 1900 nuclear warheads to Russia, in exchange for security guaranty for its territory, forever.

“Representative democracy” is a half way house between pure dictatorship and real democracy. Clearly, it has become unsustainable… Be it only because of the problem of too many nukes in too few hands… But real democracy, direct democracy will not be achieved without maximizing truth…

Patrice Ayme

“Socialist” Schroeder, ex-PM of Germany, embracing his employer Putin, himself in charge of exploiting Russia for global plutocracy’s profit.

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[1] The connivence between Western leadership and Putin was long obvious… even among politicians. In 2006, Poland’s defense minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, likened plans to build the first Nord Stream pipeline to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact — the half official, half secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, and providing the Nazis with the Kremlin’s help to wage war. It made the Kremlin’s Berlin indispensable ally: the Wehrmacht invaded Western Europe fuelled by Russian oil. Sikorski in 2006: “Poland has a particular sensitivity to corridors and deals above our head,” Sikorski said at a security conference in Brussels. “That was the 20th century. We don’t want any repetition of that.”

If You Want Peace, Prepare For The Worst

Some advocate negotiating with Putin. They are hopeful: it’s not Putin who put the babies to death. Maybe NATO, whatever NATO is. That Finland wants to join NATO demonstrates it.

How does one negotiate best, with the devil? Long fork? Faustian bargain?

Very, simply, to negotiate with Satan, for the best, one should expect the worst from one’s interlocutor, and believe only the worst. 

Putin will make war until NATO and Ukraine get tired. Or so he seems to hope. This is probably not going to happen: too many in NATO and Ukraine have realized the evil of Putin’s tyranny. Too many remember Hitler and know they are next… because Putin explained his ruscist vision of history. So then what if NATO and Ukraine, which have more than a billion citizens, all living in democracy, that means, thinking in parallel and most of the most creative thinkers of the planet do not get tired? Putin’s Russia at some point, ravaged by war and sanctions, will stop being a Great Power, for all to see, having lost treasure, manpower, clout, its army and economy… while exhibiting its lack of smarts, and experiencing consequences thereof. Putin will then just feel powerful because of his nukes. 

We have to get ready for that day… and it will come all too soon.

Ever since Ivan I “moneybags”, the Kremlin empire has stabilized itself with foreign wars which enabled it to call all opponents traitors to the fatherland, thus kill or exile them. This mentality of expanding abuse was inherited from the Mongols who had invaded and destroyed Kievan Rus. Inner peace by terror through subjugating outer war created the world’s largest durable empire… and an entire civilization entangling war with a church. 

This mentality of expanding abuse contradicted the earlier quasi democratic traditions of Russian Kyiv. War regimes invite dictatorship, which became the Russian form of governance… or even civilization. In many ways Lenin was similar, yet more authoritarian than all the Czars before him (and he massacred more Russians). Many revolutionaries, for example Rosa Luxembourg, saw this and opposed it. 

Ukraine was subjugated by the Kremlin with various tricks and invasions in the last three centuries. Between Stalin and Hitler, Ukraine suffered up to 14 million citizens killed in as many years.

This war is between the democratic principle and and the principle that terrorizing nuclear dictatorships, monarchies with unbound power, the fascist principle, now with quasi divine power, should guide humanity. This is the moment when civilization has to save itself… by destroying the fascist principle. So this is an existential situation. Either we bring enough artillery, or we don’t. 

Some will object that Putin is so deranged, he will use nukes to avoid losing. The potentiality of that abomination gives us even more reason to vanquish him. This is a world war, and like WW2, it is starting slowly. Hitler was easier to oppose early on, before he unleashed his terror society. Same situation with Putin. 

The Kremlin has more than 2,000 “small” nukes (Hiroshima, Nagasaki).  The US has a few hundreds, and France discontinued its “Pluton” tactical nuke system. The smallest French strike now is 300 Kt, from supersonic bombers (twenty times Hiroshima)… that’s “strategic”.

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As Putin has plenty of small nukes and NATO mostly only has big nukes, Putin apparently believes he can exploit the baby nuke gap as part of his unscrupulous doctrine of “Escalating to De-escalate.” “I don’t think there is any such thing as a ‘tactical nuclear weapon,’” Secretary of Defense, ex-top general Mattis told Congress in February 2018. “Any nuclear weapon used any time is a strategic game-changer.” The commander of the US nuclear forces acknowledged in 2021 that no one knows if using low-yield or tactical nuclear weapons will trigger a full-scale nuclear war. Yet, as I said, this is irrelevant: the Putinists and rucists believe that using nukes… de-escalate!

Thus we need to persuade the rucists that such is not the case: using nukes will escalate… otherwise we will end, in the best possible case, as their slaves and toys.

To prepare for a nuclear war, which will come if a coup doesn’t come first, plans for evacuation of cities and massive prompt construction of anti-missile systems is a must. Also there will be no other choice than threatening to provide Ukraine with similar nuclear devices  

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A coup would be better… Generals and colonels who may have engaged in war crimes should be told, laws should be passed, that they can’t be prosecuted if they neutralize the crazed idiot who gives them insane criminal orders now… in a war we have to persuade all influential Russian, terroristic nuclear tyranny can’t win.

In any case, the more than 40 military allies of Ukraine, it’s a world war, remember… have to get ready for the worst, and this is why Finland has decided to apply to NATO, and entered, with Sweden in a military alliance led by the UK, involving many of the countries which were immorally and idiotically neutral in WW2 (Netherlands, Danemark, etc…)

Getting ready for the worst means scrambling the construction of new weapons… But those to fight nuclear war should get priority (in particular ABM systems). This is what getting ready for the worst means.

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Please do not believe I love war, just because I don’t want to please Putin: I had known, and written, that Putin was capable of this, for more than twenty years. Why was I so sure of Putin’s depravity? Fundamentally because he is a hater, smart at being an idiot, with a completely biased ethno view of history. And this was clear in how he got elected to start with, becoming popular thanks to engineering a genocide in Chechnya. This was already as dirty as it gets, and the Russian population falling for it, made it worse. Having risen through a genocidal plot makes Putin an illegitimate president from the start, another argument that putschists could exploit.

Biden, Senator Graham, and others, maybe following what was recommended here first, were right to call for Putin’s removal. That would be best.

Putin Delendus Est!    

Patrice Ayme    

The 280 mm gun in front fired a shell with a Hiroshima size bomb (15Kt) exploding 10 kilometers away after 11 seconds:

Cathedral of the Russian army, 100 meters tall, erected under Putin.

START JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WAR CRIMINAL PUTIN: To Undermine The Respect He Needs To Command!

Putin threatened, several times, to turn the planet to “RADIOACTIVE ASHES“. This is the first time an individual is willing and capable to doing so. Humanity is facing a danger “never seen before in your history” … To use Putin’s own words… Indeed, Putin is right on that one: never has a leader threatened to destroy humanity for ethnic reasons. Even the Nazis did not sink that low: the Nazis had huge stores of nerve gas; they did not use them, even as they lost the war and their lives.  

This unprecedented menace to humanity fostered by one man with a suddenly puffy face, needs to be answered with unprecedented measures. Putin uses respect to order Russians around, and implement his will. This respect for the leader is crucial in all countries, but particularly in a dictatorship. Without this respect for the leader, a modern country cannot wage war. This respect has to be undermined. To destroy the respect Putin enjoys, Putin has to be branded legally with what he is: a CRIMINAL AGAINST HUMANITY. This will make all individuals who have to obey Putin think twice.  

Using an infaming label works. Putin himself knows how valuable such a method of public shame and condemnation is, because he is using it: whoever tries to resist him will be called a Nazi and destroyed. The insult is grotesque: that Ukraine needs to be de-Nazified, because of the genocide against ethnic Russians. However grotesque the insult worked: many people in the West, or Russia believe that Ukraine is ruled by Nazis, committing genocide. Never mind that Ukraine’s president is targetted for assassination by Putin. The president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy, is an ethnic Russian, his first language was Russian, and he is a Jew. Zelenskyy is the only Jewish head of state outside of Israel.  

This is a world war, and a nuclear one: Putin was very clear. This is zero surprising: Putin was fully hallucinating already in 2014. Unfortunately, the leaders in the West are ignorant, or accomplices:  

https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/putins-lies-hallucinations/

How could the Nazi world war and holocaust have been terminated early? By killing Hitler. Potentially that could have saved dozens of millions of people: the war became deadlier, the longer it lasted.

Informing a country that its leaders are viewed as criminals against humanity is crucial. The method should have been used against the Nazis, it would have made history more palatable. German officers, pistol loaded, met with Hitler several times, determined to kill him. However in the end they did not do it, because they lacked not courage, but moral certainty. If Hitler had been branded as a war criminal, worldwide by respected authorities, those German officers would have done it. Dozens of millions of civilians and years of suffering would have been prevented. Instead, as Hitler was President-Chancellor even those who wanted to kill Hitler to save Germany thought it was morally wrong to do so.

Now we have the ICC, an institution of the UN. Also democratic leaders could brand Putin for what he is: potentially the world’s most dangerous criminal history has ever seen.

If Putin is branded a criminal against humanity, Russian generals will realize they are engaged in a mass criminal enterprise. No doubt it will make them less enthusiastic to obey their orders. And maybe one will make his duty for humanity, and will be more lucky than the more than a dozen German army officers who tried personally to kill Hitler, face to face [1].

The representative democracies tried to show good will to a monster. That was a strategic mistake. Good will doesn’t work with serial killer rapists. Only brute force does. The democracies should have sent vast quantities of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, a fellow democracy. Yes, corrupt, they say, and they nag. But aren’t they all?

Others will moan that legal proceedings take time. However, opening a judicial inquiry on whom is potentially the greatest criminal “ever seen in your history” takes not much time, and should already have been instigated. Also, making accusations of war criminality by authorities, elected or not, moral or not, could be done immediately. Biden did this a bit, but he did not go far enough.

Patrice Ayme 

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Worse than Hitler, because he invades for extending empire (Hitler wanted a connection to East Prussia… now occupied by Russia)… while threatening all of humanity (something Hitler would hae liked to do, but couldn’t, and didn’t!)

Putin ballistic missile strike on Kyiv a metropolitan area of four million people.

[1] In the Walkirie Operation, the coup against Hitler in July 1944, only one officer carried the bomb, Claus Graf von Stauffenberg. Eigth got killed, Hitler escaped death by a weird miracle. However, in several other attempts earlier, officers, all the way to the highest (field marshall) had tried to kill Hitler. One bomb’s mechanism froze in the plane. Several times, Hitler went too fast through planned visits. In several of these attempts, officers were determined to die to kill the tyrant, embracing him while activating explosives. A gigantic (more than 2 meters) blue eyed blonde aryan officer, a poster boy for the ideal Nazi, even carried on his back a land mine…

The Nazis executed more than 5,000 German army officers after Walkirie.

Hitler had some plausible gripes: the Sudeten, and the Dantzig corridor, which cut Germany in two (not saying that those gripes should have been solved by invasion; Poland was ready to talk about Dantzig). Now the situation is worse: the motives of Putin are purely ethnic and an alternate version of history, the opposite of what happened.