We know that Putin is a self-centered, myopic man with no sense of
morality. Frankly, it's not surprising that he'd annex Crimea. After
all, the west made fun of Russians for not knowing how many toilets go
into a private bathroom. Putin will never get over that. I knew
he'd strike out at something (though I thought it would be gay people
rather than an entire country). But you expect this sort of nonsense
from Puti. It's what he does.
What worries me more is the Russian people.
What worries me more is the Russian people.
Pro-Russian crowds seized two Ukrainian warships Thursday and Ukraine said its troops were being threatened in Crimea as the European Union considered new sanctions against Russia for its annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.
The Russian people seized two Ukrainian warships?! The people, not the army? Maybe we should take a closer look at these folks. From what we've seen on newscasts, Russians enjoy taunting and beating gay people. Their glee is obvious. It seems they
don't seem have a moral center, like other people do. It's all about
making fun of others and harming them (while surrounded by Christian
crosses and Coptic priests; just saying). And now they've seized a warship?!
When
I see Vladimir Putin on the news, speaking to a (pre-picked, I assume)
group of people in a hall in Russia, and the camera shows the audience,
I'm chilled. That sea of white faces gazing up at Puti with glazed, adoring eyes, reminds me of something.
It's like a scene from German history -- to be precise: the week before Kristallnacht. Hitler's atrocities could not have taken place without a craven populace who cheered his every abuse as they queued up for jobs at the concentration camps. The Russian people love what Putin is doing. They enjoy the abuse of gays, they relish the illegal move into Crimea. And hey, they seize warships.
This won't end well.
