Putin’s Holocaust

By Howard Bloom

Is Vladimir Putin using a policy of what US and NATO officials call “slow annihilation”[i] on the Ukraine? And if he is, why is he doing it? Why are Putin’s troops performing what even Putin-lover Donald Trump calls a holocaust?[ii]

Vladimir Putin’s first week of war in the Ukraine did not go well. Putin took only one Ukrainian city: the southern city of Kherson. When Putin first invaded, he apparently intended to take Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, in 24 hours. Eight days later, Kiev was still stubbornly resisting Vladimir Putin’s army.

To solve this problem, Putin sent a 40-mile-long convoy of military trucks, artillery, vacuum bombs, rocket launchers, and tanks to Kiev. An overwhelming force. But that convoy was bogged down for days, making no progress.

Then Putin apparently became frustrated. If Ukrainians would not come out on the streets and welcome his troops with flowers, he was determined to smash their cities to bits. So increasingly, Russia has been attacking civic buildings, apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals[iii] driving over 1.5 million women and children to flee to neighboring countries in just the first seven days of the invasion.