The Nightmare in Ukraine

[peter92305]

The sad thing about this whole saga is that the Russian people deposed Gorbachev because the freedoms he was giving them were taking too long to come to fruition and they lost patience with him.
The result of their impatience was that they got the drunkard Boris Yeltsin who replaced him and who later resigned and appointed PUTIN to succeed him.
How they must now be regretting their impatience with Gorbachev.

Putin is not popular with the vast majority of the Russian people, some of whom are suffering under extreme poverty under his leadership. It is his awareness of this that encourages him in this confrontation with Ukraine. He incorrectly calculates that Russian expansion abroad will make the population proud and grateful irrespective of the fact that many of them are starving with an impoverished standard of living.

The Russian people have no wish to be regarded as the Periahas of the world. I am sure that this aggression of a neighboring country disgusts them as it does the rest of us.
The problem is that when you have a madman dictator ruling you, you fear for your family if you rebel against him.

It is to be hoped that as more Russians come to terms with the World's hatred of them, they will realize that somehow, Putin needs to be deposed. The fear of nuclear retaliation by Putin is the only thing that prevents the West from a more aggressive response.
It is only the Russian people and their armed forces that can remove Putin from power. Without Nato troops on the ground accompanied by strategic air dominance, we are helpless apart from sanctions which in the short term, will solve nothing.

GOD, SAVE THE WORLD