Directly from the mouth of Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, “If [Putin] wants to kill himself, he doesn’t need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945.” Of course, the suggestion is for Putin to pull a Hitler, who actually killed himself in April 1945, but the point is well taken. The world is waiting, Putty Boy!
There is one more Russia corollary with Nazi Germany that is worth a bit of opining. Like Hitler, Putin has reached peak dictator syndrome — making poor decisions unilaterally and his generals supinely oblige. Many German generals expressed varying degrees of a desire to depose Hitler throughout his reign, but there was never a majority or consensus to get rid of a leader who was destroying their armies and the country before their eyes. Astonishingly, they persisted and ultimately helped Hitler usher the ruin of a nation. I wonder what is going on with Putin’s generals. At what point do they commit to destroying Russia and, dare I say, the planet? It is almost incomprehensible that humanity revisits itself — so to speak — despite lessons from history. Namely, we have allowed once again a single person to hold hostage the rest of civilization, and there are, no doubt, enough people close to Putin who could change the course of history but will fail to do so.