Ukraine: With Putin, It Is Only Going to Get Worse

Editorial Staff: February 25, 2022

Vladamir Putin is no joke. And anyone who believes that he does not have a vision of victory in Ukraine is dillusional. The 69 year old Putin has set his sites on Ukraine but he most likely will not stop there. After all you don't launch a full scale invasion of another country and a few days later say to yourself, “Oh, I think I’ve made my point,” and go home.

Yes the situation in Ukraine currently is an ugly one and most believe that it is ugly, and surely will get uglier

Putin was never really interested in the possibility of negotiations, he was never open to discussion, he set this in motion and will follow it through to his perceived victory in his head. In doing so he has shocked the West and that was his intention.

Putin at 69 has been leading Russia for over two decades, most of that as effectively a dictator. And like previous dictators seen throughout history he has spent much of those 20+ years isolated and paranoid: He has no peers, often has nobody who can contradict him without fear or bring him bad news without happy talk, and must always fear plots around him. This isolation has doubtlessly deepened in the past two years of the worldwide COVID pandemic, as it has for all of us. His behavior in recent appearances suggests a man who has consumed too much of his own propaganda, a common ailment for aging dictators.