Putin, like any dictator wants to die in power, how the hell is he going to die in power?

He's going to create a war to distract Russians and tighten his grip and consolidate his power.

That way, the average Russians will be distracted by his war.

And they're not going to notice how he's robbed them of all sorts of rights and a future.

When you see these videos of the recruitment officers going to these extremely poor villages across Russia, especially,

especially in the ethnic republics like Dagestan and saying to them, come on, you got to fight

for the future. Sign up now. There's one video where a Dagestani man says to the recruitment officer,

why should I fight for the future when I have no present?

So Putin's trying to distract Russians for the fact that they have no present and therefore no future by unleashing this big old war. And that gives them all sorts of excuses to destroy the shreds of whatever was left of independent press, media,

journalism inside Russia, foreign press, martial law, whatever the hell he wants.

He can do it now because he has this war as an excuse.

So yes, there's in all sorts of chatter that the Russians are getting advice from aliens,

that Russians are following this new

world, new age philosophy that has ancient roots, this, that, and the other, that Putin is driven

by the founder of fascism himself. You know, there's all of this discussion. And certainly,

Putin is a history nerd, just like anybody. And that's

sort of the joke about him, is that he spent too much time in COVID isolation. And he read too

many zany alternative view history books that he's gone off the deep end and he's trying to

bring back Soviet Empire glory. Certainly there's absolutely elements of that,

that he does and has had this long-term view

of bringing back the Soviet Union

and that everything he's done has been leading to this point.

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