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In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, a young St. Petersburg student, Rodion Raskolnikov, embarks on a murder case to prove his pride. His motive is simple. He aspires to be exceptional, just as Napoleon was exceptional. However, after confessing his sins and being sent to Siberia, Rodion undergoes a spiritual transformation and repents of his sins.
Somewhere in the bowels of the Kremlin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, a KGB killer and Dostoevsky’s own former mayor of St. Petersburg ponders the consequences of his 300-day special military operation. There is no chance of redemption like
Putin believes he is a reincarnation of Russia’s imperial and Soviet past. No crime, no matter how horrific, warrants remorse more if it is committed for the development of the Russian state. Rodion considered himself Bonaparte. Putin believes he is Peter the Great, Alexander the First, Stalin’s reincarnation. Peter the Great built cities and opened his country to European ideas and practices. Emperor Alexander marched to Paris after defeating Napoleon. Stalin conquered Eastern Europe and terrorized the Earth. But Putin’s ethno-messianism may be driving Russia into oblivion.
Please review your bid. Putin plans assassinations of rivals around the world, including dozens of oligarchs who have blown up Moscow apartments, shot down planes, waged numerous wars on their neighbors and kept falling out of hotel and hospital windows last year. Like Stalin, he has turned Russian Orthodox leaders into national disrespects, so much so that Pope Francis has admonished the Moscow Patriarch for being Putin’s “altar boy.” The Russian economy has been hit hard and has no prospects of recovery for decades.
The Russo-Ukrainian War: More Bloodshed Without End in Sight
He waged a war of human annihilation in Ukraine, resulting in twice as many troops lost in one year as the US lost in Vietnam in ten years. Six million refugees flooded the borders of Eastern Europe, and perhaps he three million Ukrainians (mostly women and children) were sent to Russia for re-education. The Ukrainian War left a criminal trail that had not been seen on this scale in Europe since 1945.
Putin has been defeated and generally defeated by a small country led by a man whose profession was once the setting of a cartoon. Moscow’s tank and artillery depots are gone, and Putin’s planes dare not fly over the Ukrainian battlefields. His penal colony was emptied and the “liberated” criminals were told to either charge into battle or be shot by security forces. Putin unleashed his two mercenary armies, Wagner and his group and the Chechen killers, operating free from the orders of the Russian General Staff and the international Geneva norms. His regular soldiers are deserting. They don’t have winter equipment. The Russian people know this and they no longer believe Putin’s “Holy Russia” propaganda. One of his visuals that captures this is of a Russian trying to leave Russia during mobilization.
The Russian high command is exposed as gangsters, blackmailers and yesmen. This is a secret society that, with each defeat, more and more resembles the cast of psychopaths and dead enders who stuck out with Adolf Hitler in the Berlin Bunker. Like Hitler, Putin is currently seeking refuge in a world pariah, in this case Iran and North Korea. Shockingly to him, China did not save him and he received the back of the hand from the leaders of India and Turkey.
Putin’s atrocities, which once dismissed Europe as a worn-out army, have reshaped the map of the continent. Russia’s northern armies now face the modern and highly capable armies of Finland and Sweden squarely. staring from The nations of Finland and Sweden have emerged from their neutral slumber to challenge an ancient enemy. He will have a hard time defending the decision to Russian offspring that led to the revitalization of NATO, with Poland taking over the leadership role once coveted by Germany that strengthened the supremacy of the Anglo-American alliance (Biden The historical relationship between Washington and London as the most credible and lasting bulwark against world tyranny), no matter how indifferent the regime may be).
Karl Marx’s collaborator Friedrich Engels famously called the Russian Empire “the people’s prison.” Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union “the focal point of evil in the modern world.” Not for granted in a Biden administration and appeasement choirs in Berlin and Paris, Putin’s legacy will be poor Third World Russia if the West continues its course. It is ironic that the imperialist dream of a petty cop could lead to the final death knell of the Russian/Soviet empire. Dostoevsky would have known the type.
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