Op-ed:

On Memorial Day...And Always  

By: Diane Sori / The Patriots Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google

 

Monday is Memorial Day and while many will go to the beach or enjoy a hearty barbecue, let’s not forget the real reason for this most special and solemn of days…a day to remember and honor those who put their lives on the line for our beloved country…a day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for a purpose they believed was greater than themselves…a purpose of keeping "We the People" safe and free at home.

And while political battles continue in D.C. and across the nation, Memorial Day offers us the chance for all Americans…no matter our race, creed, color, religion, party affiliation, or whether this president is our president of choice…to unite together and remember the one thing we all we have in common...gratitude...gratitude for those who served…gratitude for the brave men and women who proudly wore but sadly died wearing our nation’s uniform…gratitude so that we can go to that beach and can enjoy that barbecue.

On Memorial Day there should be no hyphenated Americans (nor should there ever be)…just Americans bowing their heads together in prayer as the flag of these United States is raised throughout this great nation, and then as it's solemnly lowered to half-staff. On this day let us remember the more than one million American patriots who gave their lives in service to this country. And when the flag is once again raised high at noon we must also remember to not allow their sacrifice to be in vain for a nation that forgets its true heroes is a nation that loses its soul.

Memorial Day is a day when we should teach our children the importance of the sacrifices made by so many to ensure their freedoms and the freedoms of generations to come.

Memorial Day is a day when many Americans will visit cemeteries or memorials nationwide to place small flags at the base of the headstones of the fallen to let them know they are not forgotten nor will they ever be.

Memorial Day is a day to honor the remains buried at the Tomb of the "Unknown Soldier" for while he, brave soldier whomever he may be, is home resting on American soil he is not with his loved ones, but serves as a reminder of the many who never made it home, and should remind us that there are still some left behind who must be brought home.

Memorial Day is a day when the "Pledge of Allegiance" should take on a renewed meaning, and should reawaken in us all the realization that we do live in the greatest nation the world has ever known, and remind us that some things are indeed worth both fighting and dying for.

Memorial Day is a day to honor courage for while those lost in battle knew fear, they sacrificed with courage of heart and strength of conviction, something that must never be forgotten for without knowing fear there can be no courage and without courage there can be no victory. Those who gave all deemed their love of country and duty to freedom were of greater value and more important then the fears they faced in dying.

Memorial Day is a day to also honor the very freedoms those lost in battle gave to each and every one of us…the freedom we have in our beloved America to act, speak, and think as we so choose without hindrance or restraint…a freedom we intend never to lose…a freedom we will fight for with just as much passion, dedication, determination, and courage as those who sacrificed before us…for we will not allow their sacrifice to be forgotten nor will we allow our freedoms to be taken away.

No…we will never allow their sacrifice to have been in vain.

Memorial Day is a day for prayers for those lost…a day for honoring their memories not just with tearful remembrances but also with a smile…a day to rediscover the meaning of what our military fights and dies for…our liberty, our safety, our individual rights guaranteed us under our Constitution, and the continuing American story of which we all play a part in.

So on this Memorial Day I will bow my head in solemn prayer and thank and remember those who made that ultimate sacrifice to keep our nation free…and pray to God that someday…"nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:4)

Someday…someday soon I pray. And may God our Father Bless America today, tomorrow,  and always.

Copyright @ 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

(I originally published this article Memorial Day Weekend 2018.)

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Op-ed:

On Memorial Day...And Always  

By: Diane Sori / The Patriots Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

This an opinion piece and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com and was originally published on Memorial Day 2018. 

Today is Memorial Day and while many will go to the beach or enjoy a hearty barbecue, let’s not forget the real reason for this most special and solemn of days…a day to remember and honor those who put their lives on the line for our beloved country…a day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for a purpose they believed was greater than themselves…a purpose of keeping "We the People" safe and free at home.

And while political battles continue in D.C. and across the nation, Memorial Day offers us the chance for all Americans…no matter our race, creed, color, religion, party affiliation, or whether this president is our president of choice…to unite together and remember the one thing we all we have in common...gratitude...gratitude for those who served…gratitude for the brave men and women who proudly wore but sadly died wearing our nation’s uniform…gratitude so that we can go to that beach and can enjoy that barbecue.

On Memorial Day there should be no hyphenated Americans (nor should there ever be)…just Americans bowing their heads together in prayer as the flag of these United States is raised throughout this great nation, and then as it's solemnly lowered to half-staff. On this day let us remember the more than one million American patriots who gave their lives in service to this country. And when the flag is once again raised high at noon we must also remember to not allow their sacrifice to be in vain for a nation that forgets its true heroes is a nation that loses its soul.

Memorial Day is a day when we should teach our children the importance of the sacrifices made by so many to ensure their freedoms and the freedoms of generations to come.

Memorial Day is a day when many Americans will visit cemeteries or memorials nationwide to place small flags at the base of the headstones of the fallen to let them know they are not forgotten nor will they ever be.

Memorial Day is a day to honor the remains buried at the Tomb of the "Unknown Soldier" for while he, brave soldier whomever he may be, is home resting on American soil he is not with his loved ones, but serves as a reminder of the many who never made it home, and should remind us that there are still some left behind who must be brought home.

Memorial Day is a day when the "Pledge of Allegiance" should take on a renewed meaning, and should reawaken in us all the realization that we do live in the greatest nation the world has ever known, and remind us that some things are indeed worth both fighting and dying for.

Memorial Day is a day to honor courage for while those lost in battle knew fear, they sacrificed with courage of heart and strength of conviction, something that must never be forgotten for without knowing fear there can be no courage and without courage there can be no victory. Those who gave all deemed their love of country and duty to freedom were of greater value and more important then the fears they faced in dying.

Memorial Day is a day to also honor the very freedoms those lost in battle gave to each and every one of us…the freedom we have in our beloved America to act, speak, and think as we so choose without hindrance or restraint…a freedom we intend never to lose…a freedom we will fight for with just as much passion, dedication, determination, and courage as those who sacrificed before us…for we will not allow their sacrifice to be forgotten nor will we allow our freedoms to be taken away.

No…we will never allow their sacrifice to have been in vain.

Memorial Day is a day for prayers for those lost…a day for honoring their memories not just with tearful remembrances but also with a smile…a day to rediscover the meaning of what our military fights and dies for…our liberty, our safety, our individual rights guaranteed us under our Constitution, and the continuing American story of which we all play a part in.

So on this Memorial Day I will bow my head in solemn prayer and thank and remember those who made that ultimate sacrifice to keep our nation free…and pray to God that someday…"nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:4)

Someday…someday soon I pray. And may God our Father Bless America today, tomorrow,  and always.

Copyright @ 2024 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

Today is Veterans Day. 

Thank you to all who wore our nation's uniform...

we owe our very freedom to you.

 

Op-ed: 

An Essay On Ukraine 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots 

 

...And for Ukraine's and the world's free nations it best be Ukraine for if Ukraine falls to Russia...if she falls to Vladimir Putin...the face of Europe herself will change for Putin will not stop at Ukraine nor will he take his hand off the nuclear button for madmen and egomaniacs are not constrained by the ties of common sense or logic. And it's for this reason alone that we must must continue our military and monetary support of Ukraine no matter what the naysayers in both parties here at home say for without our support Ukraine will in the end fall setting off what will truly be World War III.

 

Why so...because modern history has shown that when U.S. support for any just war is lacking or minimal at best, as it currently is with Ukraine, or when the U.S. enters a said war fairly late in the game...as we did in World War II...said war tends to last longer with more casualties and collateral damage accrued than if the might of the U.S. military had entered said war sooner rather than later. In today's truly global world, for better or worse, a world now rife with the stain of cowardly non-interventionist...Read entire article here.

Op-ed: 

An Essay On Ukraine 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots

History is a cruel mistress in that lessons learned are not always remembered nor acted upon in a wise or timely manner. And here I speak of the lessons of war...lessons regarding the foreboding of possible war to come as well as of lessons reminding some that things that needed to be done were simply not done.

And war is more times than not the breeding ground of small-minded men with Napoleon complexes who see today's world as but a mere chapter in the ongoing saga of what many believe to be just a geopolitical rivalry between the world's three major super powers. Afraid to the face the truth about issues way more complex than just three nations jockeying for the number one superpower position, those here in the U.S., those in Putin's Russia, as well as those in Red China, know that both circumstances and ambition, peppered with self-perceived righteousness driven in part by media dictates can, when melded together as one, be the determining factor in who becomes the victor and and who the loser with what was believed to be a just cause being relegated to the annals of war's history alone.

Such is the case, I believe, in regards to the current happenings in Ukraine for the fact is that Ukraine and Russia have a long, bloody, and ever so complicated history with each other no matter words to the contrary. In fact, in June 1945, Ukraine...then known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic...was among the first countries to sign the United Nations Charter, thus being one of its 51 founding members. Also remember that the then USSR actually endorsed Ukraine’s UN entry as it being a separate country...basically admitting Ukraine's autonomy...albeit a separate country that they counted on to always vote and side with them.

And while numerous conflicts did exist between the two countries in the years since then, today's highly volatile and dangerous situation started with Russia's February 2022 invasion of a country whose leaders were looking towards the future...as in Ukraine truly becoming part of Europe...instead of continuing to allow their country and her people to live in the past...a past that would see Ukraine officially returning to “Mother Russia's” fold. And with Vladimir Putin's overinflated ego coupled with his personally driven quest for history making immortality being the hoped for components that would propel Russia to victory, Putin deliberately escalated the still smoldering eight-year long conflict that began with Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, the very action seen by many world leaders as the historic turning point for European security.

And so with his victory in Crimea, Putin gambled on both “Mother Russia's” and himself being invincible and unstoppable, with Russia being victorious in war and with his being hailed as the motherland's hero. Thankfully though, history seems to have other things in mind for Vladimir Putin as he is now being seen by many...military folks included...as not just the purveyor of major strategic blunders in regards to his underestimating his enemy's strength and determination, but also as the destroyer of what was once great “Mother Russia” herself.

Strength, focus, determination, and history...catalysts all peppered with a healthy dose of reality finds Ukraine, the second-most-populous and powerful of the fifteen former Soviet republics, aka “satellites,” now standing its ground against one of the world's greatest armies and its ego-maniacal dictator who relishes in his having one hand on the nuclear button at all times. And as Ukraine continues to forge its own destiny as a sovereign and independent nation...a nation truly free to align itself with nations in the West...Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues his personal quest to find a way to balance his country's hope for the future while at the same time resolving what remains deep seated internal divisions within his own country and government...divisions not unlike those seen during the time of our own Civil War...a war that saw brother pick up arms against their own blood brother just as Russia now picks up arms against their genetically tied Ukrainian blood brothers.

Think of the Ukrainian-speaking population in the western part of Ukraine (those who support becoming part of the EU and NATO) as being akin to the north's Union soldiers...while Russian-speaking folks in Ukraine's east (those wanting closer ties with Putin's Russia) as being Confederate soldiers. Now compare and contrast the framework for each war...minus the issue of slavery which itself was more about economics than the actual breaking of black folks chains...and one can see how eerily similar they are as both wars started with so-called “breakaway territories” declaring their independence from the homeland...the Confederate states declaring independence from the U.S., the Russian-backed states of Donetsk and Luhansk doing so from Ukraine.

And also know that both wars targeted the trade and transportation networks of the opposing side. In our Civil War access was restricted to Confederate ports with European nations feigning the face of neutrality while openly supplying arms and munitions to both sides. In regards to Ukraine, last year not only did NATO nations close their airspace to Russia, but international sanctions actually helped to restrict Russian trade while we and others who supported Ukraine continued and still continue to send them military aid with neutrality, ever so wisely, thankfully not even in the picture.

Neutrality, in my opinion, is but the front of cowards for to be successful in war means one must not fear the taking of sides nor the collateral damage incurred. And while both our Civil War and the still ongoing Russia v. Ukraine War...a war that in reality is simply a war of self-determination...sees as their basic commonality a striving for national reunification coupled with both political and economic conquest. But know that more times than not it's tangible success in battle alone that determines who history portrays as heroes and who are portrayed as villains, as well as who will be determined to be the ultimate winners and losers in this modern day version of civil war.

And for Ukraine's and the world's free nations it best be Ukraine for if Ukraine falls to Russia...if she falls to Vladimir Putin...the face of Europe herself will change for Putin will not stop at Ukraine nor will he take his hand off the nuclear button for madmen and egomaniacs are not constrained by the ties of common sense or logic. And it's for this reason alone that we must continue our military and monetary support of Ukraine no matter what the naysayers in both parties here at home say for without our support Ukraine will in the end fall setting off what will truly be World War III.

 

Why so...because modern history has shown that when U.S. support for any just war is lacking or minimal at best, as it currently is with Ukraine, or when the U.S. enters a said war fairly late in the game...as we did in World War II...said war tends to last longer with more casualties and collateral damage accrued than if the might of the U.S. military had entered said war sooner rather than later. In today's truly global world, for better or worse, a world now rife with the stain of cowardly non-interventionist policies, the aggressor...in this case Vladimir Putin and Russia...is given the time, space, and media coverage needed to help stage the battlefields of war to play out in their favor. We see it now happening on a daily basis with every step forward Zelenskyy and his forces make being met by a new and more deadly barrage of Putin's savagery with the tally in civilian casualties showing no signs of waning

History, as stated earlier, has once again become a cruel mistress as we and our allies basically sit by and watch those in Ukraine bravely continuing their fight against seemingly insurmountable odds, with help from the U.S. and NATO being fleeting at best. Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom...after all freedom is and always will be worth fighting for...while we tally up the dollars and cents spent knowing well that Joe Biden's promises made to Ukraine might never come to fruition. Our problems here at home cannot compare to what the Ukrainian people are facing, and know as truth that if Ukraine does fall what's to stop Putin from overtaking Europe and then setting his sights on the U.S. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it all plays out, but know that when madmen and fools are in control...when history's lessons learned are ignored...there truly is no safe place to call home. Case closed.

Copyright © 2023 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed:

On Memorial Day...and Always
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

Monday is Memorial Day* and while many will go to the beach or enjoy a hearty barbecue, let’s not forget the real reason for this most special and solemn of days…a day to remember and honor those who put their lives on the line for our beloved country…a day to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for a purpose they believed was greater than themselves…a purpose of keeping ”We the People” safe and free at home.

And while political battles continue in D.C. and across the nation, Memorial Day offers us the chance for all Americans…no matter our race, creed, color, religion, party affiliation, or whether this president is our president of choice…to unite together and remember the one thing we all we have in common...gratitude... gratitude for those who served…gratitude for the brave men and women who proudly wore but sadly died wearing our nation’s uniform…gratitude so that we can go to that beach and can enjoy that barbecue.

On Memorial Day there should be no hyphenated Americans (nor should there ever be)…just Americans bowing their heads together in prayer as the flag of these United States is raised throughout this great nation, and then as it's solemnly lowered to half-staff. On this day let us remember the more than one million American patriots who gave their lives in service to this country. And when the flag is once again raised high at noon we must also remember to not allow their sacrifice to be in vain for a nation that forgets its true heroes is a nation that loses its soul.

Memorial Day is a day when we should teach our children the importance of the sacrifices made by so many to ensure their freedoms and the freedoms of generations to come.

Memorial Day is a day when many Americans will visit cemeteries or memorials nationwide to place small flags at the base of the headstones of the fallen to let them know they are not forgotten nor will they ever be.

Memorial Day is a day to honor the remains buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for while he, brave soldier whomever he may be, is home resting on American soil he is not with his loved ones, but serves as a reminder of the many who never made it home, and should remind us that there are still some left behind who must be brought home.

Memorial Day is a day when the Pledge of Allegiance should take on a renewed meaning, and should reawaken in us all the realization that we do live in the greatest nation the world has ever known, and remind us that some things are indeed worth both fighting and dying for.

Memorial Day is a day to honor courage for while those lost in battle knew fear, they sacrificed with courage of heart and strength of conviction, something that must never be forgotten for without knowing fear there can be no courage and without courage there can be no victory. Those who gave all deemed their love of country and duty to freedom were of greater value and more important then the fears they faced in dying.

Memorial Day is a day to also honor the very freedoms those lost in battle gave to each and every one of us…the freedom we have in our beloved America to act, speak, and think as we so choose without hindrance or restraint…a freedom we intend never to lose…a freedom we will fight for with just as much passion, dedication, determination, and courage as those who sacrificed before us…for we will not allow their sacrifice to be forgotten nor will we allow our freedoms to be taken away.

No…we will never allow their sacrifice to have been in vain.

Memorial Day is a day for prayers for those lost…a day for honoring their memories not just with tearful remembrances but also with a smile…a day to rediscover the meaning of what our military fights and dies for…our liberty, our safety, our individual rights guaranteed us under our Constitution, and the continuing American story of which we all play a part in.

So on this Memorial Day I will bow my head in solemn prayer and thank and remember those who made that ultimate sacrifice to keep our nation free…and pray to God that someday…”nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah 2:4)

Someday…someday soon I pray, and may God Bless America today, tomorrow, and always.

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 * Author's Note...I was asked to rerun my Memorial Day article from 2018 once again. And to those who made the ”ultimate sacrifice”...Rest in Everlasting Peace brave warriors...your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

 

Copyright © 2022 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

Op-ed:

On Cowards, The Courageous, and The Insane

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

“We're not attacking Russia; we're helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.”

- Joe Biden's words regarding our newest aid package to Ukraine

 

Let me start by saying that a key reason Ukraine now finds itself at war with Russia is because Vladimir Putin was able, back in 2014, to manipulate America's cowardly apologist Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his VP sidekick Joe Biden into looking away as he brought both Crimea and Ukraine's Donbas region back into Russia's fold. And Putin did so while NATO and the U.N. looked away as well leaving Putin to basically run unchecked with Ukraine getting a brief respite while Donald Trump...a strong commander-in-chief...was president.

Now back and emboldened like never before, Vladimir Putin continues to make a mockery of both Biden and NATO what with his dictating how this war will and will not be played, and by his continuing to hang the shadow of possible nuclear war over all our heads. And as atrocity after atrocity is inflicted upon innocent Ukrainian civilians, Putin sits back and relishes in channeling his inner Hitler, for what he is doing in Ukraine is using Hitler's extermination tactics albeit on a much smaller scale. One just needs to see what remains of the once thriving port city of Mariupol and her people to understand that.  

So now as the U.S. and the NATO nations talk of increasing military aid to Ukraine...as in sending additional aide on top of the aide already promised that has yet to arrive...we find Putin and his cronies warning said nations that their doing so only helps to “fuel the conflict.” And don't think that Nancy Pelosi and crew's recent photo-op visit to Ukraine hasn't gone unnoticed by Putin as well. Remember, Putin still calls his illegal incursion into the sovereign nation of Ukraine a “special military operation” and not a “war”... while at the same time he continues to issue warnings...read “threats” here...that said aid or even musings of increasing aid raises the risk of seeing a “direct confrontation” between Russia and the NATO powers. 

But here Putin's actually addressing the U.S. no matter that Biden continues to state that American forces will not physically join the fight in Ukraine.

But like a good military tactician that Putin is...or at least he thinks he is never mind that he, his strategists, and his generals all grossly underestimated the will of the Ukrainian people to fight back...Putin knows well that any actual confrontation between Russia and the U.S...a confrontation where Russia hoped to come out on top...would best happen before 2024 at the latest while a weak Joe Biden is still under Obama's America-hating control.

And while Putin is a smart man...we are not dealing with a mind like Joe Biden's here...he is also a laser focused man whose unwavering goal has now obviously become clear, as in to bring all the satellite nations lost at the end of the Cold War back under Russia's control. And Putin gave that away not just with his incursion into Ukraine per se, but also with his now likely involving Moldova, a small impoverish nation who now lacks the strength, militarily or otherwise, to fight back. Like lambs to the slaughter Moldova will sadly go if Putin so wishes it, leaving one to wonder which former satellite but currently free nation will be next.

It's a roll of the dice it now seems, what with a cunningly calculating madman possibly being the very one who determines not only Ukraine's future, but Europe's and the world's future as well. Remember, Vladimir Putin has the one thing that even Hitler failed to have...a world so terrified of both nuclear and/or chemical war that even in the scope of the dangers presented he knows that we in the West still are refusing to tangibly fight back.

It's better, many think, to let Ukraine fall...better to let the breakaway satellites get reabsorbed back into “Mother Russia's” fold...as it's better to let that happen than to risk nuclear war by standing up to a man who clearly is not in his right mind...a man who gambled on his successfully committing atrocities we still are bearing witness to, while knowing full well that we will do nothing to stop innocent Ukrainian blood from being shed.

“The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations...”

- exiled anti-communist Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1978

Simply and quite shamefully, Vladimir Putin has basically rendered the West, and especially our beloved America, militarily impotent in a game of “Russian roulette”...quite apropos is it not...a game where only he knows in which chamber the nuclear bullet lies. Now becoming the world's most dangerous man, Putin truly fits the definition of one gone mad...mad with power that is. And when one is so driven by the need for power coupled with the want of having ultimate and lasting control, can madness itself...can actual insanity...be far behind. Surely, I think not.

So the question now becomes is Vladimir Putin simply trying to show the world that there's a new world order of which he's the new boss, or has he actually become gripped in the throws of power hungry, revenge seeking, insanity?

The answer to that is really an amalgam of both for only one not in their right mind would see the mere presence of a freedom seeking country like Ukraine as encroaching on Russia's dictatorial borders, especially when Ukraine made no threats against them. Only one on the border of insanity would believe that Ukraine was a “fundamental threat” to the Russian Federation that echoed Nazi Germany's 1940's threat to the then-Soviet Union. And only one now in the grips of insanity would believe, as does Putin, that the Communist Red Army was the savior of WWII, and that the Russian military of today would save Ukraine from what he believes to be a Nazi regime. And all stated is Vladimir Putin's current line of thinking, while Russian troops willingly commit atrocities on par with Hitler's at the same time Putin's propaganda machine spews rhetoric contrary to what is visually seen.

And so the man whom both the Russian forces and the Russian propaganda machine now call their “supreme high commander”...a reference of honor in twisted minds to the infamous Joseph Stalin...but is it really a reference to hide the fact that something is not mentally right with Vladimir Putin? Does Vladimir Putin now believe himself to be a supreme god of war of sorts...a despotic mindset to the nth degree...as his actions in this war sure seem that way. How so? Only one on the edge of insanity would decide to launch a “catastrophic new European war,” knowingly and willingly commit what is paramount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and then use the threat of nuclear war to be the self-deciding factor as to his winning said war. This alone leaves one to wonder if Vladimir Putin has become so paranoid of failure that he's lost all sense of reality.

Is failure what Vladimir Putin fears most...is fear of failure what drives him to do things no sane individual would do? I truly believe so, because if Putin fails in Ukraine he also fails at home in Russia, and on the world stage as well. Losing to the likes of Ukraine's ever courageous Volodymyr Zelensky is simply not an option for Putin. And while Zelensky has rallied his “troops” by giving them a cause worth fighting and possibly dying for...with freedom and self-determination being said cause...Putin instead sees the Russian people protesting and turning against him as his self-promoted, propaganda driven lies finally are being exposed. To the victor goes the spoils of war, and Putin knows well that if he loses on the Ukrainian battlefield his iron fist now hovering over Russia might just turn out to be what leads to his ultimate downfall.

And then there's the fact that Vladimir Putin's physical appearance seems to be changing as well, and that he appears to be but a shell of his former self. Even President Trump has alluded to the fact that the Putin he knew and dealt with when president is not the same Putin he is today. “Bloated and weakened” some foreign newspapers are claiming, and that maybe he's suffering from a physical ailment...possibly even some form of cancer coupled with Parkinson's disease...either of which in running its natural course could also be affecting his mind.

Or is it simply the fact that in his miscalculating both President Zelensky's leadership and those in Ukraine continuing to fight back, that Vladimir Putin now has less inner confidence in his ability to win what is a war of his own doing. And could Putin's seemingly aggressive behavior coupled with the overtly threatening demeanor he's now showing towards both his adversaries and his own people alike, be but a front to mask a true coward of a man who knows that history will show that his hands will now and forever be stained with the blood of all the innocent Ukrainian civilians both he and his generals killed.

So while the world at large continues to watch the horrors in Ukraine continuing to unfold on an almost daily basis, know that even a cowardly, child killing, little man as vile, manipulating, and self-centered as Vladimir Putin is...whether his countenance be courtesy of ambition, illness, or a self-perceived need to seek revenge for the Soviet Union's downfall...that said very man still must deal with world opinion which is now decidedly and ever so rightfully against him.

And with his hoped for 3-day war now entering it's third month, know that Vladimir Putin's reign of terror will eventually come to an end whether it be in war or by his own or another's hand. And while the time of this war's end still remains unknown as does the final number of the dead on both sides of a war that neither the Ukrainians nor the Russian people wanted, the annals of history do show that more times than not he who thinks themselves invincible, simply and thankfully is not. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and others of their ilk met their destined fate in Hell as someday Vladimir Putin will too.

And with that I say, case closed.

Copyright © 2022 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

 

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