Vladimir Putin by Misha Firer

 

Eduardo Mitchell

 Here is a very on-target mini-bio of Vladimir Putin by Misha Firer:

The Loneliest Man in the World

Today, Vladimir Putin officially opened a new front in his war against the world, with China.

A “billion people country” wants to “eat up a chunk of Russian land. We’re gonna knock their teeth out. That’s the reason why we need to develop our armed forces.”

Russia is already fighting Cold War with the West. Hot war in Ukraine, Middle East (Syria), and Africa (via Wagner Group mercenaries).

There are no friends left. Everyone is either an enemy or a potential enemy.

He is completely isolated from his countrymen - physically, in his palace; and mentally, as he cannot relate to their experiences anymore after living for more than two decades in the ivory tower as a dictator micromanaging and macro-managing affairs of Russia, passing laws, electing and firing every single governor and mayor in the land.

He divorced his wife. He had a girlfriend for some time who gave birth to twin sons, but she too drifted away. His youth friends have become super rich and busy with spending money while they can.

Only the minister of defence Sergei Shoigu, a reindeer herder from a Turkic tribe, like a faithful dog is always around his master taking him to the taiga in his homeland to practice shaman rituals.

Dictator in his Labyrinth, at the end of his reign. Paranoid, resentful, scared. Absolute power has drained him of any empathy and compassion for human beings. An empty husk of a man and a warning to any democratic nation whose leader is eager to derail it into autocracy.

For eight years Putin had flown around the world, always late to meetings and forums with foreign leaders to show his supremacy. In the meantime, a minted elite of new oligarchs formed the ruling class.

Officials and intelligence service operatives were tripled in number to satisfy the greed of millions who wanted to do nothing and have a lot of money.

Putin created this system and tolerated corruption that became the bedrock of his reign, for he was the most corrupt leader in the history of Russia as well as the richest one.

On paper, he owned nothing. In reality, he has at least eighteen palaces and mansions throughout Russia. A fleet of planes and dozens of cars. He lived in luxury having all the money in the world that was at his disposal as all he had to do is flick his finger and any oligarch would give him a couple of billion dollars for expenses.

Putin was one of the most recognized people of modern times that was a match to the absolute power that he held sway over the biggest country in the world. He saved Russia from disintegration and made it great again.

He staged Olympic Games in Sochi and doped athletes so they would become champions to demonstrate greatness of Russia and his personal greatness to the whole world. This heathen nation has found its ultimate barbaric hero and fell in love with him.

Europe was at his feet dependent on his gas and oil. He was buying their politicians and parties. A few more years and the entire Europe will be drawn into Russia’s sphere of influence. And then who knows, America will be next?

But then, during a temporary make belief transfer of power, former Soviet republics began to show their disinclination to be part of Putin’s master plan.

First Georgia and then Ukraine changed the allies and scuttled for the West.

Wars were launched. Counter-sanctions were imposed. From a popular dictator loved by his countrymen, Putin returned to his persona of a KGB operative. He got a windfall: annexation of Crimea was celebrated by his countrymen, who like him, earned for greatness like Spaniards of the old had craved after gold.

Putin began to build an Iron Curtain to fight external and internal enemies. From prosperity, his nation returned back to poverty, from which he had pulled it two decades ago.

His grand design popped like a balloon. Illusions were gone and the harsh reality was exposed: Russia was a gas station with nukes ruled by a corrupt dictator.

A poor, isolated Russia and its populace living hand to mouth - this is the nation that Putin is going to leave behind. That is his legacy.

The Loneliness Man in the World. And his woeful people with millions of square miles of empty land, self-isolated, delirious, and lost in the fantasies of heathen Gods.

I cry for you, Russia.