Speechless Incredulity, Putin!
"It's unbelievable but true. We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks.""Those who hope to defeat Russia on the battlefield do not understand, it seems, that a modern war with Russia will be very different for them.""We are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond. It won't be limited to the use of armoured hardware. Everyone must understand this.""Now, unfortunately, we see that the ideology of Nazism, already in its modern guise, in its modern manifestation, again creates direct threats to the security of our country.""Again and again we have to repel the aggression of the collective West.""It's incredible, but it's a fact: they are threatening us again with German Leopard tanks with crosses painted on their armour.""And they are again going to fight Russia on the territory of Ukraine with the hands of Hitler's followers, the Banderites [WWII-era Ukrainian nationalists/Nazi collaborators]."Russian President Vladimir Putin
President Putin laid a wreath at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex in Volgograd Reuters |
"Now Russia is concentrating its forces. We all know that. It is preparing to try to take revenge, not only against Ukraine, but against a free Europe and the free world.""We must do everything we can together so that next year - on the first Thursday of February - we will be able to pray simply with thanks for the obtained salvation from evil."Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Russian service members drive a tank during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the victory of Red Army over Nazi Germany's troops in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War Two, in Volgograd, Russia February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Kirill Braga |
When
the German command was given its orders to launch a surprise attack
against its erstwhile member of the German Axis it took Russia by
surprise. Russia, after all, had signed a pact with Nazi Germany
bringing it into the orbit of fascist Germany to fight against the West.
The German march on Russia changed its order of business, taking Russia
over to the Allied side of the Second World War. Russia's friendly
relations with Germany came to a scudding halt. And its resistance
against the German invasion led the Allied war effort on Europe's
Eastern Front.
At
an enormous cost of human life; millions of Russians and Germans both
perished in their monumental and bloody conflict. So do we now consider
Russia to have back then been a fascist nation allied with Nazi Germany?
Communism, after all, and fascism do have much in common; both degrade
the human spirit. Germany's National Socialism German Workers Party had
much in common with Communism, both purporting concern for the welfare
of their people, both oppressive dictatorships, both historically
irenic.
It's
just that Germany had larger plans than Russia in its quest for
domination. Russia was content to subjugate Eastern Europe; Nazi
Germany's plan was the complete subjugation of the entire continent --
for starters. Nazi Germany fell first. It took quite a bit longer for
the Cold War to conclude with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The
Hot War with Germany was dispensed with at an enormous cost of human
life on a wider scale, not confined to the Russian interior.
A T-34 Soviet-era tank drives during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the victory of Red Army over Nazi Germany's troops in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War Two, in Volgograd, Russia February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Kirill Braga |
Germany
has learned its lesson well; its state infrastructure, culture, and
political system having undergone a massive helping hand mostly by the
United States toward full recovery where its economy now leads that of
all Europe; its ambitions to lead all of Europe forgotten. Whereas
Russia at the split-up of the Soviet Union was unable to pull itself
together and Moscow dreamed of returning to Soviet glory with Vladimir
Putin at its helm.
Still
a Communist state, still a fascist ideology. With Mr. Putin's throwing
that detested word around as a dagger to smear any country that he
believes has Russia's downfall in their to-do itinerary. So now Ukraine,
anxious to join Western Europe in the European Union, and eager to
become part of NATO, has become the Nazi state that Communist Russia
must defeat lest its near presence infect Russia with fascist
ideological threats and violence.
Pre-empting
that paranoid illusion the Kremlin joined ranks with Vladimir Putin's
ambitions to invade Ukraine just as Germany once did to Poland and
France, spreading its occupation throughout Europe, while scheduling a
bit of racist recreation in rounding up Jews, Roma, Seventh Day
Adventists, Gays, the mentally and physically handicapped and political
dissenters into slave labour camps and finally death camps. It was a
gory, busy campaign for ambitious Aryan/Nordic-admiring Germany.
And
here is present-day Russia accusing Germany of striving to re-visit
history by once again invading Russian territory -- none other than the
vast reaches of Ukrainian territory that Vladimir Putin has claimed as
Russian territory. Of course this is strictly metaphorical; German
battle tanks gifted to Ukraine to give it the opportunity to match
occupying Russian tank numbers with an aim to shove the Russian military
back into Russia. Aggressive, vicious Russia, relentlessly bombing
Ukrainian infrastructure and civilian enclaves.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Volgograd Region Governor Andrei Bocharov in Volgograd, Russia February 2, 2023. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS |
Even
Volga boatmen must be laughing at their histrionic president, calling
out a country desperately attempting to defend itself from Russian
drones, missiles and rockets hitting Ukrainian cities, apartment blocks,
hospitals, kindergartens, shopping centres and power stations while
Ukrainian citizens young and old freeze in the dark of winter and bewail
the lack of clean, potable water, desperate medical shortages and
growing food scarcity.
But
there it is -- the hero of Russian aggression against former Soviet
satellite states, envisions himself the second coming of
Stalin-the-butcherer. He's made a good start by producing 8 million
Ukrainian refugees scattered throughout Europe. Vladimir Putin the
liberator of Ukraine. And his opponent,the Jewish President of Ukraine
whom Putin labels fascist, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Nazi who heads a
cabal of fascists threatening Russia.
Putin,
who hisses to his European and North American detractors that this is a
new era, and Russia is no pushover; threaten Russia and you risk
seeing its nuclear arsenal in action. Conventional warfare is a thing of
the past; push Moscow too far, he sneers -- and risk the reality of a
post-conventional conflict that will sear the world in bleak, black
simmering ashes of destruction. Get the picture?
Russian nuclear missile Topol-M near the Kremlin |
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