What does Putin want?

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PeaceWorld or death

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Le monde paisible ou la mort

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WORLD WAR COVID
From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld
Learner, begin 

What does Putin want?

A psychopath with nukes, Putin,
Except, as Czars go, he did  his best for his electorate
Until this latest bully pulpit escapade.
Proof he cared for his people until that got too hard.

His beloved Russia is a hollow, shrinking husk
Russians are fewer and fewer. 
Russian women don’t have babies at replacement level.
Russian men die young for the most part

Between:

War casualties (an entire generation of its best youth dead or maimed), 
Draft-dodger, tax dodger and murder dodger exiles from 
A badly shrunken educated class
Because the education system has crumbled
Omnipresent gas light propaganda,

Free speech, free press and private dissent brutally suppressed
State corruption at every pay grade
Police terror by day and night
Epidemic alcoholism

The national IQ must have dropped, ten points?
All the while, they are sitting on a treasure trove of resources
Literally sitting on it, since the extraction infrastructure is rusting out
Who is going to horn in and take all their stuff this time?

Putin’s jammed in this little red wagon rolling down the hill
The card play has been bad for days and nights
There’s plenty of cash lying around somewhere,
But he’s all spent out
Every new deal, his cards keep getting worse

So why not play the Hitler gambit: 
Grab all you can
Hold onto everything, 
Grab for more and 
Dare the world to stop you.

Thing is, the Viking Rurik strategy: 
Hold everything,
Give nothing back
Die and kill anyone who opposes
The Russian default strategy,

It ALWAYS leads to 
The opposition ganged up and won
Russia holds nothing securely
Everything is lost with interest.
Throughout its history.


Does Putin want nuclear war?
Over a pile of bodies he took such care of;
Me and X thousand picked troops in company shelters.
Supplied for how long? Not long, that would get expensive.
When we emerge, no-one can resist us.”

It is the same old story. The Nazis failed to herd their victims into bunkers and gas all of them. This time, the Nazis will flock to deep underground bunkers well provisioned with wine, women and song and clean water and filtered air and etc. Then they will fart a decades’ worth of nuclear, bio, nano toxins across the planet.  Belsen gas chamber becomes the whole world. Paid for by we  fear-crazed victims. What genius!

Except Chinese troops would take Siberia  
And probably White Russia too. 
Even after Putin showered China with half his nukes,
So no, not that.
 
Let’s face it: Putin’s dug-in heels crumble the cliff edge,
Up there on tippy-toe, with nowhere left but the fall.
That pyramid schemer has nothing left to lose,
All he has got left: “Dare grab more or take the fall.” 

It is up to those close to him but not friendly,
And very hostile to us,
All guilty of crimes equal to his,
Pro-Putin since doomed otherwise.

 A suicide pact. “We prop each other up to steal, hurt, lie more;
Or we go down together. Nobody gets off lightly. 
If things go wrong, we shut the hatch and blow up the world.”
Do they share a weakness that could unseam their rotten net all at once?

 Like in South Africa and post-war Germany,
Cease fire, surrender all together and police the rogues,
Get debriefed, 
Take your chances with execution or hard time for evident crime, 
Then get released to more or less responsibility. 
In short, most survive.

 How many geo-barriers must the Russian heartland garrison, nine?
No leader would admit that Russia would be more secure
By crowning them with nine bouquets of free democracy,
Instead of nine totalitarian garrisons.

 A free and democratic Russia, the natural ally of those bouquets,
It would rush to the aid of its allies against outside threat.
The Russian heartland finally peaceful and secure.
The psycho Viking czarist garrison idea has failed every time.
 

I picture an up-and-coming young Captain Vladimir Putin
Leading a Speznatz commando to intercept a nuke convoy gone astray.
Rogue Soviet, rogue NATO or criminal gang?  Who cares?
He’d gravitate to that kind of job. 

Such that there was no spillage of radiation.
Mission accomplished, convoy captured, secret medals all around, Putin included.
The entire company may be down with cancer by now.
For no reason, they were not dosed with Iodine at once.

Top cancer docs are in permanent attendance.
His gray skin, low energy and irrational behavior are signs
Of the battle he will lose eventually from poisoning.
Who knows? Did they heroically stop World War 3?
 
Who knows; for all his craziness,
Putin usually sided with progressives
Against the Stalin Brezhnev apparat
Even as a young spy learning German.

 What does Putin want? His historical remembrance after he’s gone?
Vladimir the sacrificial (Cyrillic honorific)
Whose hyper masculine example and comic book brutality
Wound up uniting the world and Russia in peace.

That could feed his massive ego,
Justify every crime in his eyes,
Even sacrificial deaths,
Even his many poisons.

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