It’s Shocking, But Putin’s Propaganda Is In Fact Winning Because Of The Inaction Of The West

The date 24th of February 2022 will be remembered for the rest of time in history books, not just by the children who are holding on to their toys and books camped in refuge in bomb shelters and underground subway stations in Ukraine, but by the rest of the world and the youth who are watching on in horror as Russian troops march onward and close in on Kyiv.

This whole situation, as one country marches across international borders and draws closer to another European city’s capital should have been left far behind in the world’s and Europe’s history. But Russia was never part of Europe or European ideals, and Putin, not too far from Hitler.

The world is shocked by Putin now, but his worldview never really wavered. For Putin, Ukraine was never an independent country. It was merely a state born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which would have only one fundamental existence: A part of Russia.

The scenes unfolding as the world grimly watches on are unmistakably reminiscent of the 1940s. Fathers & mothers separated from their children, families crying out for help well into the midnight hours as the bombs drop from air raids, young men and women being forced to take up arms, donning military uniforms vowing to defend and fight for their country to the death; Except now in the 21st century we have the internet and social media as a means of watching this massacre take place as opposed to having only radio back then.

The parallels are not far from when Nazi planes began to bomb Kyiv at 4am one early morning day in 1941. Fast forward to 2022 and Putin chose 5 am to begin his assault on Kyiv on Thursday, eerily just half an hour later from the time Hitler chose during WWII.

Putin’s message, which couldn’t be farther from the truth, justified that Russia needed to invade Ukraine to save Eastern Ukrainians(the Russian speaking population) from a nuclear and genocidal threat, which basically didn’t exist.

Rather ironically, in his public address, Putin branded Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a ‘neo-Nazi’ who was a threat to the Russian speaking population of Eastern Ukraine, when his own heinous act this past Thursday could be termed as that of one. Zelenskiy is a democrat and of Jewish descent, which makes Putin’s branding of him even more ironic.

Putin has hardly kept his worldview a secret. Russia annexed a part of Georgia in 2008, and then Crimea, a part of Ukraine, in 2014. Then almost like a smokescreen four years later, Russia hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup as the world watched and celebrated the event.

But the West failed to act on those early aggressions by Putin. The rest of the world didn’t come to the aid of Ukraine and help them defend their borders, offer support, or aid them militarily to stop the Russian threat.

To Putin, that inaction by the West and the rest of the world was a go-ahead and a green light.

Today, as Ukrainians cry out to the rest of the world for help, the West condemns Putin and along with other allies have all enforced economic sanctions on Russia. But this will hardly hurt Putin or displace his agenda, especially considering he has allies like China, who are willing to step in and counteract those sanctions by helping Russia soften the hit.

While economically sanctioning Putin’s Russia is largely unproductive, going against Putin militarily is an even more daunting affair, if not close to impossible and terrifying.

He continues to remind the West and the rest of the world that Russia are “a powerful nuclear state.”

This warning by Putin isn’t just theoretical in its conception, Putin sees Russia’s nuclear capability inherently a part of his military strategy.

Putin thinks he can re-envision and redraw the map of Europe according to his ideologies and agenda in exchange for blood, and the rest of the world can only watch in shock and horror unable to go up against such a man. And that is the harsh truth.

Putin doesn’t care about what the majority of the Russian people think and is ready for the loss of lives in the war, just as ready as he is of the financial hit to the Russian elite and the economy. So it’s perhaps admirable to watch those brave Russian citizens who took to the streets to protest against Putin’s war.

However, by and large, we can only watch all these events unfold and offer messages of solidarity to the Ukrainian people, but in truth, they are really all alone.