HEGEMONY

(05,22,2022) Hegemony, the domination of one nation over others, has been a common practice of Russia’s regime for the last one hundred years. However, there is a glimmer of hope in that region, as the Russian people are growing tired of going hungry while their government wastes money on endless wars and stockpiling armaments in order to seize more territory. The Russians are also angry over the fact that their leader is known to have squirreled away assets (money and property) worth over a trillion dollars. The Russian president, Putin, wants it all. It seems that, when it comes to possessing things, he can never have enough. He made promises to the old regime, those who put him in power, and he is hell bent on making good on those promises, such as bringing back the old ‘Mother Russia’ that existed before the wall came down. But, this extremism, cold blooded murdering of innocents, has upset Russian oligarchs and even many former Russian military leaders who are now calling for a halt to Putin’s war crimes. However, instead of heeding his people, Putin has developed tunnel vision wherein he can see no outcome but the total domination of the Ukrainian people. Be assured! He will not stop there. That is why he is now threatening other countries, such as Finland and Sweden, who are talking about joining NATO. It shows that Putin has also had his eye on these Northern regions. But, it now looks as if those plans will be thwarted. Ironically, these talks, between the Northern nations and NATO, are a direct result of Putin’s actions. One has to wonder if Putin realizes that, and it is this fact that makes him even crazier. After all, the Northern districts of Europe see what is happening in Ukraine, and they don’t want the same thing to happen to them. Whereas they tended to be passive, until now, Putin has forced their hand. But, where does he get the audacity to tell other nations what they can and cannot do? This sort of behavior goes beyond hegemony. Putin does not dominate Sweden or Finland. And, presently, he does not dominate Ukraine either, although he likes to think so. Putin is not as crafty as he thinks. The whole world, including his own people, have now gathered together to tell him that he has overstepped his boundaries. His flippant disregard for human life, moral decency and such laws as those defined by the Geneva Convention, has only served to backfire on him and his plans for global domination. Putin’s ruthless actions have not gained him the foothold that he salaciously covets in Central Eurasia. Instead, though he uses deceit to try to justify his invasion of Ukraine, by massacring thousands of innocent people, Putin has ultimately ‘shot himself in the foot’, while conducting his slaughter. And so, suffering from his self-inflicted wounds, and seeing his plans go awry, Putin is lashing out. As more of his assets are being seized, Putin threatens the world with nuclear war. He is hoping that it will make democratic countries, those that oppose him, back down from the fight. Can he possibly be so delusional that he is unaware of the fact that there are greater forces, than him, involved in this conflict? One can only conclude that Putin is blinded by his power and illusion of self importance. Thusly, he is incapable of admitting the fact that he is fighting a losing battle. The brave Ukrainian people would rather die than give in to this tyrannical despot. The blatant defiance, of the righteous Ukrainians, in their refusal to surrender to Putin’s terroristic tactics has enraged him even further. ‘How dare they defy him what he desires?’ So, now, Putin is throwing a tantrum. Not even the people, who are closest to him, know what Putin will do next. And, it is clear that he does not have control over the troops that he sent into Ukraine. It appears that many of them are just out on a killing spree, behaving like the old barbarians, raping women, killing children and shooting innocent civilians in the back after they take what they want from them. Clearly, Putin’s troops are not in Ukraine to ‘rescue’ the people from some concocted Nazi threat, for his troops are behaving just like the Nazis who occupied European countries during the second world war. Putin’s troops are the Nazi threat! Another thing that Putin cannot control is the truth. No matter how many lies that are spread by Putin’s sycophants, attempting to distract, deflect or ‘spin’ stories about what is happening in Ukraine, the truth is reaching his own people. Russian state television tells Putin’s version, while world news broadcasts deliver the actual truth, with live coverage of the events, to the Russian people. Shortwave radios are now in high demand, in Russia, because the Russian people are tired of being spoon fed Putin’s propaganda. They are waking up to the reality of Ukraine’s dire path to its imminent obliteration at the hands of Putin. The vast majority of Russians do not support Putin’s desire for global domination. And they now realize that he has failed grossly in his empty promises of growth and prosperity for his people and country. The only real achieved prosperity was to that of Putin’s bank accounts. There is a change coming for the Russian people. It is in the air, as the cries of the suffering Ukrainian people are ‘carried on the wind’ to the ears of peace loving Russians who are beginning to stand up and listen. If one can glean any positive outcome as a result from the atrocities committed by Putin, in Ukraine, it is the fact that he has ‘sparked’ anew a once simmering fire in the hearts of the Russian people. The desire for change, by revolution, has been re-ignited. Putin needs to learn that hegemony, like him, is a relic of the past, where it must remain, along with likeminded bloodthirsty tyrants such as Genghis Khan etc., who neglected to hinder at massacring generations of people in their greedy quest for power. Today, more informed generations of nations are becoming enlightened to the possibility of a world free from the threat of war or nuclear destruction. This one thing can be controlled by mankind, for it is mankind who created the threat. Of course, we will continue to suffer from strife, brought on by such natural disasters as drought, fire, floods, earthquakes etc., but these environmental catastrophes can be overcome by communities and nations joining forces to support, aid and comfort those suffering in the aftermath. We can also mitigate the circumstances surrounding the causes of these events by doing less to harm the environment and more to treat it with the respect deserving of God’s green Earth. Just imagine what could be accomplished if we took the billions of dollars, which is spent on biological warfare, and spend it on cleaning up the environment, providing clean water to communities that require it. It is within our power to affect the change that the world so desperately needs, right now! Tomorrow will be too late! We must act now if we are to save the world and preserve it for our children and future generations. It is time for all nations to come together and join forces. Ultimately, this includes Russia, China and North Korea, as well, if we are to wipe out the threat of a nuclear Armageddon. Maybe then, everyone will be able to sleep a little more peacefully at night. Then, the trillions of dollars, spent on armaments each year, could be re-allocated to wiping out each nation’s deficit, and employing people to work on developing clean energy and creating a greener earth. After all, when God promised that the meek shall inherit the earth, he was speaking of an idyllic garden, like Eden, not a burnt out husk. This type of congeniality, of which I speak, would require that all simpatico nations form a synergistic synthesis.