Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, March the 15th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

If Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has a face, it's the wounded pregnant woman who was taken on a stretcher from a

maternity hospital bombed by Russia last week. Now the Associated Press is reporting that the mother

and her baby have died. How much Ukrainian death and destruction will be enough for Putin?

Does he want only to remove President Zelensky

and install a puppet regime loyal to Moscow similar to the one in Belarus? He's already arrested

the mayor of the southern city of Malopatol and replaced him with a new acting mayor who is

urging residents to adjust to the new reality and end

their resistance to Russian occupation.

Does Putin want to control the entire country, making it part of a new Russian empire as it was

part of the old USSR?

In justifying his invasion of Ukraine, he claimed that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood

was a fiction and argued that modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia.

Are his motives more personal?

It has been widely noted that Peter the Great, the giant Tsar, some historians estimate he stood at least six foot eight, who is credited with transforming Russia into a feared world power, is Putin's personal hero.

For more on Putin's military ambitions and his personal background,

please see Ryan Denison's excellent new paper,

The Inevitability of Russia and Invasion of Ukraine,

how Putin's history reveals his destiny at denizenforum.org.

Some experts are even wondering if Putin is suffering from dementia, Parkinson's disease,

or roid rage from potential cancer treatment that involves heavy use of steroids.

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