From: andronicus451@gmail.com   
      
   Mr. Vladimir Putin, though I respect him and his reasons, has made some   
   very obviously wrong choices even for a KBG agent.   
      
   He failed to predict that Sweden and Finland will seek to join NATO if   
   Ukraine is brutally prevented from it and he also makes public his   
   intentions to install nuclear missiles in Belarus.   
      
   He is also contradictory, as if he has split mind politics: one for him   
   and his free extension of nuke placement, and the other for the rest   
   of the world.   
      
   Russians are thought in the West to respond poorly to reason and   
   logic arguments and react best to arguments of force. I do not subscribe   
   to this point of view, being introduced somewhat to Russian classic   
   literature and Russian science. And last, but not least, Russian renown   
   computer professionals and notorious hackers.   
      
   All of this requires logic. Maybe in an authoritarian regime it is safer   
   to look at your boss doing an obvious blunder out of embarrassment   
   and the intimidation of the consequences if you stood up to him.   
   But you did not and thousands of Russians needlessly died.   
   Some of them are still waiting on the fields devoured by the beast,   
   until they are hopefully identified by their DNA and sent to their   
   beloved. It grieves me that this happened to a plain Russian conscript   
   soldier who thought he was going to a military exercise.   
      
   But, then again, I wonder who did the destruction of a ward of a   
   nursery clinic in Mariupol and who did awful stuff in BuÄ   
   a.   
   It is said: "What you take won't kill you, but careful what you're giving."   
      
   The enemy has no power to destroy your soul, only your own wrong   
   choices can.   
      
   I fail to see the need for an authoritarian system of operation for   
   I consider myself one of the peers or first of the equals at best.   
   But probably if one starts to eliminate his enemies in odd ways,   
   he is forced to close oneself with more paranoid protection.   
   This is also due to the New World Order, for last citizen president   
   Olof Palme was assassinated just like that.   
      
   How regrettable.   
      
   Did we promise so much in the 80s when we sent Voyagers to search   
   out planetary alignment, had a supernova in 1987 and saw the communism   
   collapse. Did we squander the chance to create a new and better world   
   forever? Are the only options left the nuclear Armageddon, the Beast and   
   the Antichrist?   
      
   The West had its own fault in this and we are not innocent. Instead of   
   new Marshall plan for the post communist countries, Russia was   
   delivered to an order which turned its most beautiful girls into   
   prostitutes and the nukes were nearly proliferated to world terrorist   
   at best offer at the hand of corrupt military.   
      
   There was a need for a firm hand. And this firm hand appeared to be   
   Mr. Vladimir VladimiroviÄ   
    Putin. For better or for worse.   
      
   If you want to understand Mr. Putin you must try a cold shower after   
   hot water. You must be ready to embrace some pain to see some gain.   
   I do not doubt Mr. Putin is ready for that.   
      
   I believe he wants sincerely stronger and holy Russia, but he chose   
   wrong methods. Increasing lebensraum and military power do not   
   work alone. It had been tried already.   
      
   If Russia wants to be the leader of the free world and the poor and   
   non-aligned countries, it will have to consider the little man, the   
   little Ukrainian, and stop acting like a bear who had been given   
   permission to devour much flesh.   
      
   in the Lord   
   Amen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)