Happy birthday, President Putin by Declan Hayes!
(2024-10-07 at 22:57:58 )

Happy birthday, President Putin by Declan Hayes!

Putins race is not yet run because NATOs game plan remains the same one of subjugating Russia and, mad though it seems, using it as a springboard to dismember China.

Though Russian President Putin has reasons galore to be quietly cheerful when he marks his 72nd birthday this Monday, 7th October, chief of these are that he has been loyal to his faith, his family and his motherland. Were his mother or his elder brother, who died as an infant in Finlands Siege of Leningrad, to testify to us from beyond the Styx, they would be rightly very proud of how Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin not only stayed true to all of them but to Mother Russia as well.

The collapse of the Soviet Union around Putins ears was a pitiable sight. Red Army soldiers in Budapest sold their kits for pennies to passersby, vodka and depression slashed the life expectancy of Russias males, patriotic Russian teachers were paid with cabbage heads and Western gangsters, together with their local collaborators, robbed Russia blind. To the extent that Putin has reversed all of that, he and his helpers should be immensely proud of the work they have done thus far.

Not that those enemies have gone away. They have not and one very important vector worth examining is the soft war NATO is directing through the cross dressing Ukrainian dictator Zelensky and Russian fifth columnists like the Pussy Riot slappers, who enjoy the same considerable support amongst the brothels and bordellos of Eastern Europe that the Gestapo did in occupied France.

That Putins most vehement Ukrainian critics have, like Hitlers French collaborators, degenerated into nothing more than hired hitmen, should not unduly surprise us, as they were nothing much better to begin with.

What is, at first glance, far more noteworthy is the unrelenting attack on everything Russian, from the great Dostoevsky to the equally great Masha and the Bear, which makes no sense until we read this very day that children in Ukraine are still being brutalised for speaking their Russian mother tongue, the same mother tongue they share with the cross-dressing Ukrainian dictator and far too many immortal musicians, artists and authors to adumbrate here.

Although those attacks, in the context of the Ukrainian conflagration, might seem trivial, they are anything but. Their purpose, when juxtaposed with the elevation of Pussy Riot, Zelensky and similar Central Asia civil society degenerates, is to demean, denigrate and marginalise all of Russia.

Although all that might seem crazy to us, no less a figure than Herr Hitler would have understood its pivotal role in helping NATO physically and spiritually divide and conquer Russia which, as these NATO links here, here, here and here detail, remains its post-Putin Ukrainian end game.

But Putin, it seems, is going nowhere anytime soon, at least not until his work of consolidating Russia within and without is done. Although the Pussy Rioters are a cancer that must be excised, the Ukrainian conflict must get priority. Although Russias recent capture of the fortress city of Vuhledar portends well, so do recent pronouncements of Ukrainian dictator Zelensky and serial British philanderer Boris Johnson.

Because Zelensky implored American companies to invest in Ukraines energy grid during his recent American junket, the Russian air force must now reduce that infrastructure to dust to show that investing in Zelenskys Ukraine has no upside. As regards Poundland Dr Strangloves like Boris Johnson, who demand that NATO should help its Ukrainian proxies to blitz Moscow and St Petersburg, Putin must show such charlatans that such bravado carries personal risk to obese armchair generals like them.

Either way, if Russia is to survive, Putin must show NATO and their Ukrainian proxies that their dreams of conquest are not worth the candle and, if the Romanian or Polish juntas or, heaven help us, the non-entity who is Prime Minister of Denmark, have problems with that, so be it, and let the cards fall where they will.

Although Putin unquestionably has his critics, much of that criticism is no more than cat yowling. Take, for example, this fine BBC piece, where Mariana Katzarova tells us of Putins "systematic crackdown" on human rights since the Ukraine invasion. A fine demolition job on Putin, until we check Katzarovas Wikipedia entry, which tells us that this Bulgarian brasser makes her living writing screeds like that, and that she knows no more about the internal dynamics of Russia than you or I do about the Yaifo tribe of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea who, to give them their due, are far more honest and honourable than carpetbaggers like Katzarova.

Although NATO is also raising the stakes on Russias border with Japan, the key to these border brush fires is crushing NATO in Ukraine, so that all 14 countries that border Russia get the message that the Russian bear retains a fearsome bite.

With her borders secure, Putin can then concentrate on the no less important task of securing Russias economic future with trade and other agreements with countries, great and small, that are not NATOs cats paws. Though two of the most important of such countries are North Korea and China. Israel has also made Russian cooperation with Iran far more important than it was even a fortnight ago.

The key to such co-operation is for each participant to know and to agree upon the extent and depth of their co-operation. Fortunately for Putin and for Russia, NATOs Ukrainian adventurism has made that co-operation between Russia and a host of other Asian and African countries that bit easier.

All of that said, Putins race is not yet run because NATOs game plan remains the same one of subjugating Russia and, mad though it seems, using it as a springboard to dismember China.

When we look at Russia in NATOs global context, we can see how cautious Putin must be and what a monumental thorn in the side of NATO he is.

That said, in the wider context of Russian and, indeed, European history, that is something Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and those who work closest with him can be immensely proud of as they have measured themselves against Russias Immortal Regiment and they have passed with flying colours. Now, that is something for the septuagenarian Putin to be very happy about, indeed.

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