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Putin’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

By July 27, 2022No Comments

A trouble with democracy is that we tend to believe politicians when they say they plan to do something. For example, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recent actions:

  1. Putin signs a United Nations-brokered agreement to allow Ukraine to ship grain using the city of Odesa’s Black Sea port
  2. Democracy applauds
  3. Putin sends cruise missiles into Odesa’s Black Sea port

 

Putin’s not-so-secret weapon is how he uses democracy against us. Putin always decides – the opinions of the Russian people do not matter. Putin does not honor his word. Democracies are different. Democracies converse – county to county, leader to leader, constituent to constituent – before taking action. During this time, Putin attacks. A war against Ukraine is a war against the US and every other Western nation.