The current state of the world isn’t entirely Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s fault, but a lot of it is Putin’s fault. Whether it’s funding Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to terror groups like Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu, or separatism here in Canada, Big Bad Vlad has done a lot of damage to the world.
But! But it is his most infamous act that will prove his undoing. On February 24th, 2022, Putin initiated a doomed, genocidal war against Ukraine. To its credit, and to the shock of everyone everywhere, the Ukrainians defended their country, their freedom, with a tenacity and effectiveness that first stalled and then now has been slowly destroying the Russian war machine.
And with it, Ukraine managed to destroy much of Putin’s malign influence in the world. The most immediate, direct result of forcing Russia to divert it’s military power to Ukraine was the sudden, stunning end of the Syrian Civil War when Bashar al-Assad fled and the Syrian people took their country back. There is a lot of work still to be done in Syria, don’t get me wrong, but there was the first victory for democracy, for humanity, in the Middle East for a long time.
But Assad’s defeat was just the beginning. The Ayatollah and his gang in Iran, Hamas, Bibi, Hezbollah… all of these monsters depended on Russian money and power to defend their evil. Without Putin’s support, we are seeing these gangsters wither on the vine.
And here, in the West too, we are seeing the effects of Russian money starting its long retreat. Trump is facing a brutal midterms where the Republican party is sure to be slaughtered; separatism in Alberta is looking down the barrel of a historic defeat.
We won’t be free until Putin is dead, that’s true. But every drone or missile launched by Ukraine at Russia, every tank they destroy and every Russian they kill, brings us closer to that historic day when the West is free and the Middle East is at peace.
Slava Ukraine! What we owe you cannot be counted.
