Putin’s sham re-election ‘will allow him to throw off the shackles’ of unleashing World War III… as he is called ‘Hitler and Stalin with more evil’
VLADIMIR Putin’s predetermined re-election will allow him to “throw off the shackles” and “get ready to march west.”
Russia experts warned The Sun that Putin is a ruler who embodies the bloodlust of both Stalin and Hitler with an “extra dash of evil” – and now he’s on the accelerator towards World War III.
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Last night, 71-year-old Putin scored an easy victory when he was re-elected with a record of more than 87 percent of the vote, after facing so-called “nobody” candidates and suppressing opposition voters.
After nearly a quarter of a century of his iron-fisted rule, anyone who could challenge him has been locked up in a gulag, exiled or murdered amid the toughest crackdown on Russia’s opposition since Soviet times.
The predictable outcome means Putin will begin a new six-year term during which he will catch up Joseph Stalin and if he survives, he will become Russia’s longest-serving leader in more than two hundred years.
Millions of eager eyes in Russia – and around the world – will now turn their attention glory-crazy Putin plan for his next term and his immediate goal to seize victory in Ukraine.
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But Russia watchers fear that if Moscow succeeds in Ukraine, bloodshed could flow into Europe.
In the wake of Putin’s much-glorified success, Colonel Hamish de-Bretton Gordon said: “The world woke up this morning in a more dangerous place.”
He told The Sun: “There are no more chains for Putin now.”
However woefully falsified or inaccurate the election results were, the ex-army officer argued: “It will allow Putin and his team to continue on their path… and continue with the accelerator all the way down.”
Last night, the British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps accused the former KGB lieutenant, who first came to power in 1999, of behaving like “a modern Stalin” and “stealing” the elections.
Writing in The Telegraph, the politician blasted Putin for “imprisoning or killing” his opponents, such as opposition leader Alexei Navalny, before the elections began.
De-Bretton Gordon said: “Grant Shapps is right: we need to wake up to this.
‘Putin is Hitler and Stalin is one whole, with some more evil around it, and people have to realize that.
“Putin is turning the Russian economy into a war economy and ramping up the pace. These are all actions of someone who wants to continue attacking the West and not try to achieve peace.”
He added: “There is no other leader in the world except [Syrian dictator Bashar al] Assad who can claim 87 percent of the votes in elections.”
In his triumphant victory speech last night, a puffed-up Putin promised to “defeat” his enemies as a crowd of his lapdogs cheered him on.
In his venom-filled tirade he threatened to spark World War 3 if western boots hit the ground in Ukraine.
But Putin evoked a patriotic sense of Russian unity, saying: “We are all one team. No one can oppress us, they will never succeed. But we, as one united family, can defeat them.
“And all our goals will be achieved, we will do everything we can to achieve this.”
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In terms of these unspecified “goals,” De-Bretton Gordon argued, “His goal is to copy Peter the Great who conquered Europe and to reconquer the old Soviet Union – starting with the Baltics.”
The expert added: “Ukraine is beginning its march to the west.
Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, also agreed with Shapps’ assessment that Putin was aiming to imitate his ruthless Soviet predecessor.
“Putin would like to be Stalin and he is on the right track. Totalitarianism and repression at home and abroad – these are the hallmarks of Stalin’s regime.
“The worst atrocities committed by Stalin’s forces on conquered and occupied lands are being repeated in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.”
The highly orchestrated elections were also held illegally in the annexed territory Ukrainian Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions – despite Russian forces not fully controlling them.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron today condemned the results, stating: “These Russian elections starkly underline the depth of repression under President Putin’s regime, which seeks to silence any opposition to his illegal war.”
However, Giles also said that the really important events of the past few days are not the election results, but the cracks emerging in Putin’s rule.
This is all about Putin waging that great patriotic war
Oleksandr Danylyuk, former Ukrainian politician
Looking beyond the alleged voting and turnout figures, “everything else shows that things are not going Putin’s way,” he argued.
“The courageous protests at individual polling stations showed that people are still willing to make their voices heard against Putin, despite increasing repression.”
A wave of attacks last week in which petrol bombs were thrown at polling booths and ink poured into ballot boxes angered the Kremlin, which vowed to abandon the election. “treacherous, bastard” saboteurs to prison.
Thousands on Sundays protested at noon against Putin on Sunday at polling stations in Russia and abroad, inspired by Navalnywho died last month in a hellish prison in the Arctic.
Giles added: “In his speech, he referred to major challenges and said Navalny’s name for the first time, noting that support for Navalny is at a level that should worry him.”
And his brief mention of Russia’s need to defend itself against Ukraine’s recent attacks on the motherland cuts through Moscow’s lies about the war, Giles said.
“It shows that Russia is unable to defend itself against Ukraine.”
Oleksandr Danylyuk, former secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council, told The Sun that it is important that we listen carefully to Putin’s inflated “victory speech.”
Instead, he said, “This is all about Putin waging that great patriotic war, with the feeling that all Russians are united around him.”
“From day one, this war was very much about throwing himself into his role as leader to show that there was no one who could ever replace him.”
He decried the fact that there was no “real difference” between this election and the Soviet-era elections he remembers from his youth.
‘The nature of these so-called elections has nothing in common with democracy.
“The other guys were selected because they were nobody and didn’t have an agenda with a pro-Putin stance.”
His landslide victory, combined with recent weeks of nuclear saber-rattling, is all aimed at “sending a strong message to the West,” Danylyuk argued.
In a lengthy tirade just two weeks before his almost certain re-election, the aging Russian ruler warned that the West is in danger of being destroyed.
A sniffy Putin accused the West of trying to ‘destroy’ Russia as he vowed to achieve Moscow’s aims in Ukraine – declaring that
He emphasized that Western Russia must then be “well protected”. NATO welcomed Sweden and Finland to the military alliance.
And the despot repeated his usual baseless claim NATO armed forces were “preparing to invade territory” and that the West was “at risk of nuclear conflict” if they sent troops to Ukraine.
A great Sunday The NATO ally warned that Britons should be recruited into the army to deter Putin amid growing fears of World War III.
Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Krisjanis Karins called on NATO countries to adopt a “total defense” military model used by NATO Latviaa state that reintroduced conscription after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This plan would… Britain have a large number of citizen-soldiers who can be called upon to fight at a moment’s notice.
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