Subj : Russia's Defeat
To   : KAELON
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Wed Aug 02 2023 07:29 am

> Putinism, in essence, is a cult of personality similar to Hitlerism in the Thi
>  Reich. In many ways, Vladimir Putin clearly has modeled his confrontation str
> egy after the Fuhrer's. It's surprising given just how unsuccessful the underl
> ng strategy was. It goes like this:

> 1. Value loyalty over competence, always.
> 2. Nurture acolytes willing to protect you (i.e., take the blame).
> 3. Deploy thugs to manufacture cassus belli and/or chaos to control the securi
>  narrative.
> 4. War.

It is certainly a surprise that he would model Hitler as you suggest.  One
or two reasons he might do so:

1. He thinks he learned from the Nazi mistakes and can do it better (which
could also mean he is crazy)
2. If you study the early roots of the Russian Revolution, and what Stalin
was up to in those years (thugs and chaos), it is possible he believes he is
employing Stalinism rather than Hitlerism.  Point #4 would then be covered
by Putin's own dissappointment that the USSR was disolved and, as you
pointed out, many of the USSR's best and brightest came from Ukraine so it
makes sense to try to bring them back into the fold first.


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