Today is the 1001st day of the war in Ukraine — the war that Russia said was never going to happen, even as it mobilized its forces on the border near the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine in February of 2022. Until, on February 24th, it did happen . . . Vladimir Putin labeling it a “special military operation” to support breakaway elements falsely claiming persecution by alleged neo-Nazi Ukrainian leaders — a leadership in actuality headed by a mild-mannered Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

I would say that you can’t make this stuff up . . . only Putin did just that. The entire war — all 1,000 days of it — has been based on a fiction designed to camouflage . . . though not at all convincingly . . . his mad empirical ambition to “reclaim” sovereign territory and reunite the former Soviet republics.

And in that 1,000-day span, he has caused the deaths and maiming of no fewer than half a million people — civilian as well as military, on both sides of the conflict — and laid waste to vast regions of a peaceful nation. He has torn families apart, forced millions to flee their lifelong homes, ripped children from the arms of their parents.

He is a murderer, a war criminal, an evil excuse for a human being. He is the 21st Century’s Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined. And still he sits in the Kremlin, imprisoning his own people under onerous new laws . . . and threatening Ukraine and its allies with the “nuclear option.”

And the world holds its collective breath and wonders . . .

What will happen next?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/20/24