The Soviet Union is dead and buried. I was in Berlin when it happened; and I cheered it on.[2] Soviet soldiers were selling their uniforms and plumbing fixtures from their barracks, and going back to "tent cities" in the once-mighty USSR.
It was a humiliating experience for them. Having been a KGB killer in East Germany (or the DDR), surely Vladimir Putin remembers this well. The "Iron Curtain" that separated East from West crumbled overnight; and the ominous guard towers were gone.
Pat Buchanan—an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and a former GOP presidential aspirant himself—has asked "Will Putin Submit To US-Imposed 'Weakening'?"[3] The answer is that he will not have a choice if he is dead and buried, like Adolf Hitler before him. As I have written previously:
Russia is weaker today than the former USSR before it collapsed. It spans nine time zones and includes 160 ethnic groups that speak an estimated 100 languages. It is by no means monolithic, and may crumble “overnight.” Once Putin is gone, Russia may be dismembered—never to rise again—with China taking part (e.g., Siberia, which it covets) and the rest becoming independent states like the former Yugoslavia.
Each of the new states will act in its own best interests, just as has been true in the former Yugoslavia, and among the countries that were spun off from the USSR—which have thrived as part of the West. Putinism will not survive Putin. It will suffer an ignominious death, like its namesake; and constitute a tragic watershed in history, like Adolf Hitler’s “Thousand Year Reich” and Nazism.[4]
If this does not happen, China will likely move on Taiwan; and World War III may have begun in earnest.[5] Having given us the deadly Coronavirus pandemic, Taiwan would be the next logical step for Xi Jinping and China's other despotic rulers.
After all, they have snuffed out Hong Kong's fledgling democracy; enslaved approximately 1 million ethnic minorities including the Uyghurs; used EMP weapons to "fry" Indian soldiers in their border war with that country; and implemented draconian Covid restrictions in Shanghai and elsewhere.[6]
All of this hinges on the death of Putin.[7] He must be butchered; symbolically torn from limb to limb; and it must happen now, not weeks or months from now. His death may partially atone for the sins of Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung—each a mass killer who will welcome Putin at the Gates of Hell.
When the first Ukrainian died, Putin should have died.[8]
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© 2022, Timothy D. Naegele
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[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6 and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/ He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams. He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] As stated previously:
When [Joseph Stalin’s] military forces entered Berlin at the end of World War II, they raped an estimated 2 million German women, the largest mass raping and degradation of women in human history. A former secretary of mine was a young girl there; and she told me that she had seen things which were unspeakable, and no human being should ever see.
See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/putin-must-die-now/ (“Putin Must Die Now”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/23/russians-are-the-walking-dead/ ("Russians Are The Walking Dead")
[3] See https://buchanan.org/blog/will-putin-submit-to-us-imposed-weakening-159337 ("Will Putin Submit to US-Imposed ‘Weakening’?") ("[T]he new, or newly revealed, goal of U.S. policy in Ukraine is not just the defeat and retreat of the invading Russian army but the crippling of Russia as a world power. . . . Putin’s Russia is not to recover soon or ever from the beating we intend to administer, using Ukrainians to deliver the beating, over an extended period of time.")
[4] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/the-death-of-putin-and-russia-the-final-chapter-of-the-cold-war/ ("The Death Of Putin And Russia: The Final Chapter Of The Cold War")
[5] See, e.g., https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/china-calls-russia-relationship-a-new-model-for-the-world ("China Calls Russia Relationship a ‘New Model’ for the World")
[6] See, e.g. https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/04/26/locked-down-in-shanghai-ive-caught-a-glimpse-of-our-techno-dystopian-future ("Locked down in Shanghai, I've caught a glimpse of our techno-dystopian future") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10765027/Even-Chinas-standards-new-Covid-crackdown-brutal-life-West-normal.html ("China is not sneering at us any more: Blockading families in their homes, forcing children to wear hazmat suits, robot dogs patrolling the streets... the new Chinese Covid crackdown is brutal - as life in the despised West is back to normal")
[7] See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10769277/Vladimir-Putin-set-declare-war-Ukraine-DAYS.html ("Vladimir Putin is set to declare 'all-out war' on Ukraine 'within DAYS' and will launch a general mobilisation of the population, as ex-Nato chief warns the West must 'gear itself up' for 'worst case scenario' conflict with Russia")
[8] See https://www.the-sun.com/news/5236303/putin-undergo-cancer-operation/ ("Putin ‘to undergo cancer operation and hand power to hardline ex-spy chief’, says ‘Kremlin insider’ in shock claim"); see also supra n.3.
See also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/russia-must-not-be-crippled-but-destroyed-like-the-soviet-union-before-it/ ("Russia Must Not Be Crippled, But Destroyed Like The Soviet Union Before It")