Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Natasha's Adventures"
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We may see the impossible happen yet? If America doesn’t ruin everything by easing the sanctions on Russia, this is the year in which Putin will simply fail to make ends meet. Russia’s economy is burning out like the layers of a giant star, getting bigger, bolder and hotter on the outside, while is rapidly burns through layer after layer of its most precious elements until it all, inevitably, collapses suddenly back onto the core.
We may yet live to see Putin’s regime go supernova. They have been dumping a billion Chinese Yuan every two days to prop up the Ruble since December and they’re running out of gold as fast. Unless Putin can produce some miracle from all those diamonds mines he’s stolen in African countries, I simply cannot see any other way for this to go.
I don’t know if you were an adult in 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and Soviet Communism collapsed, but I was. And my biggest take away from that was that anyone who tells you they saw it coming is either misremembering or just making things up. As far as the outside world saw things, the Soviet Empire looked as solid and immovable as ever, with Gorbachev offering small, incremental steps toward peace with the west. Then, boom! Out of a clear blue sky . . .
So never say never, my friend. All the stars are aligning and, unless Putin really isn’t as dumb as his recent blunders have suggested over the past decade, and has some master plan that none of us see coming, this year is his final year presiding over his empire. He may hold on to power, who knows? But it won’t be over anything bigger than a medium sized European country called Russia, and no longer containing any of the, “federation,” states.
Personally, I don’t think his oligarchs will let him off the hook for that. Have a good laugh at my expense, this time next year, if I’m wrong. But, just remember, this only works so long as America doesn’t help Putin out.
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Thank you so much for this insight. It has more value than I can put into words. It is remarkable that the Russian state’s response to the Zelensky interview was SO PREDICTABLE. That’s the thing about evil; it’s sheer banality.
I remember something Putin said to a western, “journalist,” in just after he started his botched attempt to invade Ukraine, which said it all for me. He said words to the effect, “If there was no Russia, what would be the point of having the world at all?” It was a response to the (hinted) suggestion that he could be deposed, either by forces from the wider world or by his own population.
The implied threat of nucl3ar annihilation was clear enough, but there was a deeper point that I so WISH people would explode the myth of. And that is the idea that Putin, “represents,” Russia in ANY WAY. I so WISHED that this, “journalist,” had responded by saying, “Why would Russia need you to continue being Russia? Why wouldn’t the country be just fine without you? What are you? A Tzar?”
Of all the propaganda that needs to be challenged at a fundamental level, I would say it is the idea that Putin somehow, “is Russia,” in some way.
Putin has worked so hard at making himself the living embodiment of Russia, to the point where his name and the word, “Russia,” are meant to be synonymous. But the fact is, like all greedy, small minded, mafia bosses, he has NO CLUE about who, “his people,” are or what Russian, “culture,” actually is.
For example, I feel certain that, if Putin ever was brought down by some palace coup, there would be dancing in the streets of Moscow, regardless of how many thousands missed him; there would be millions more that celebrated the end of his dictatorship. And I think Putin is vaguely aware of that much. Which is the full extent of how in touch he is with his own people: he fears them.
Putin is NOT Russia. And Russia would be better off without him. Deep down, in their hearts, all Russians know this; even the fanatics.
I really appreciate your thoughtful insights, honesty and realism. I feel for you and the ambivalence you must struggle with, understanding your people far better than your dictator ever will and loving your country far more than your dictator ever could. Your truth is louder than anything Putin has to say. Thank you, sincerely.
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