Rothkopf: Ukraine Invasion by Russia Is the Beginning of the End for Putin and His Friends

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David Rothkopf
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As of today, Putin's true depravity...and the threat posed by him and those who support and defend him...have been revealed in a way that can never been forgotten. It will lead to his undoing...and that of his supporters like Trump, Fox & their friends.

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Ukraine Invasion by Russia Is the Beginning of the End for Putin and His Friends
Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine will result in the downfall of him and his friends.
11:29 AM · Feb 24, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-invasion-by-russia-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-putin-and-his-friends/

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Five a.m. local time in Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, the moment the Russian military launched its unprovoked, indefensible full-scale invasion of the largest country in Europe, marked the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin.

The attack, which even in its first few hours has taken a devastating toll on Ukraine and its people, also will be seen as a turning point in the careers of those who supported Vladimir Putin—from the oligarchs now scrambling to keep their superyachts from being seized to cynical America political leaders who have since 2016 offered a chorus celebrating and defending the Russian president.

Despite his past crimes and abuses, Putin has somehow managed for two decades to be seen as something less than the threat he really was. He was largely accepted at the head tables of the world’s elite, even after he murdered and imprisoned his critics, stole vast fortunes from the Russian people. He spoke at the Munich Security Conference in 2007 and effectively rejected the post-World War II international order… and still the invitations kept coming. After he ordered the invasion of Georgia in 2008, he received a slap on the wrist from the international community, but maintained his role attending international summits and hosting dignitaries.

Putin hosted the Olympics in 2014, shortly before he invaded Ukraine for the first time and seized Crimea. That cost him his G7 Summit privileges but still he was embraced by world leaders and business moguls as though he were a leading citizen of the world in good standing.

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