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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDecision Time for the West - Freedom or Fascism
https://alexandrachalupa.substack.com/p/decision-time-for-the-west-freedomIn this Good versus Evil moment of history, we are approaching the end of the final act. Vladimir Putins regime, the greatest immediate threat to humanity and the planet, has intensified its surge of war crimes against Ukrainians, and human rights abuses against Russians. History is ours to shape but we must choose which path to follow, and too many Western leaders still fail to rise to this occasion, unwilling or unable to match Ukraines courage, and instead, allow history to repeat itself.
Will our story be one of tragedy, full of doom and despair; great loss of life; where Putin sets the boundaries, drives the narrative, and demands that international rules and understandings are enforced in his favor while he blatantly violates them? This has been the comfort zone for Western leaders and media over the past eight years when he first invaded Ukraine in 2014, even longer given his war crimes in Syria, Georgia, and Chechnya. But Ukraine has shown the world, it has another story to offer, that anyone with courage and compassion can be part of, and it insists it will have a happy ending (and not the type that the late Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Barr once discussed).
The story Ukraine is writing, and the world is embracing, is one of rebirth, a spiritual resistance for freedom, independence, and peace that resonates with billions around the world. But this journey from darkness to light continues to be a painful labor, and some key decisions need to be made and acted on immediately. These are the interconnected latest developments on Putin, Ukraine, and Trump that the world needs to understand and demand action from those who have power:
1. Vladimir Putin Until Death Do Us Part
Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle. Vladimir Putin
The villain in the story, Vladimir Putin, has forced us into a marriage of his own delusions, a fantasy where he rises as Czar of a religious extremist fascist global empire of criminality blessed by his religious militant intelligence arm, the Russian Orthodox Church, which operated as a division of the KGB in the last decades of the Soviet Union, after decades of Soviets exterminating religious leaders and tens of millions of people of faith. While the Patriarch of Putins Russian Orthodox Church, a strong partner of American fascist evangelicals, openly supports the Kremlins genocide and destruction of churches in Ukraine, and in his sermon on Sunday blamed western liberal values and gay pride parades for Russias illegal invasion, Putin continues to make clear his intentions of cruelty and genocide, as his neo-Nazis troops execute civilians, and strategically create food shortages. Putin is not only taking from Hitlers playbook, but Joseph Stalins 1932-1933 strategic famine that starved to death millions of Ukrainians. This morning, Russian forces bombed another bread factory in the breadbasket of Europe. Despite his brutality, it is increasingly obvious that Putin cannot win this war and faces certain death, The Hague has proven too good for him, and there is no miracle he can pin his hopes to.
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Decision Time for the West - Freedom or Fascism (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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(90,344 posts)1. K&R,