Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Estimating Putin’s destruction in Ukraine

If Putin is to be kept accountable for the huge damage he has inflicted to Ukraine since the beginning of his unjustified war of aggression, he is already behind almost $110 billion in damage to the country infrastructure according to a study from Kyiv School of Economics and 3.5 million people homeless according to the Ukraine’s defense ministry. 

The worst though, is the loss of human lives, that according to a recent Zelensky’s interview by the CBS news network for its 60 minutes magazine, amounts to 500,000 including civilians and soldiers on both sides. 

This might be overstated but it’s not too far from a Reuters article from April 12, in which the news organization claims that as many as 354,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Ukraine war at that point in time.

What that massacre tells me is that priority number one is to remove Putin, unless the world can stand to increase and perhaps double that number or even more, should he decide to nuke humanity into oblivion. 

There's John Lyly’s quote that “All is fair in love and war”, but the fairest thing to do NOW is to neutralize Putin before he lives to his nefarious potential. Humanity has no excuse for not acting.

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