The Octaputin
This post concerns the worst authoritarian ruler on the planet. He has a very large military complex, nuclear weapons and lots of resources. Known to murder people to stay in power. He kills families, he uses what ever means to stay in power. In his past he got a Doctorate degree. He wants to put together the old Russian and soviet empires.
A brief history of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
A Russian politician and former intelligence officer now the President of Russia. Putin has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999. He was the prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. In 1996, he moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999.
Thus Vladimir Putin has stayed in power for 25 years. In this time he has spread his tentacles all over the planet. Therefore to me he is the Octaputin. He uses his background in intelligence to target other leaders along with 60+ years of Russian/Soviet intel. He also used this book by King and Cleland‘s Strategic Planning and Policy as a guideline. While not an original thinker, he clearly studied and learned his lesson well. Sadly, for Russian citizens he did not study current military tactics and prefers to use human wave and terrorist murder tactics on the counties he attacks.
Currently wanted for War Crimes
When John McCain called Putin a “thug and a murderer,” this is what he was talking about. Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000, has created a regime under which his opponents are murdered; political prisoners are sent to Siberia for decades behind bars; minority rights are suppressed; opposition is quashed; foreign territory is forcefully annexed; and Syria’s bloodthirsty president, Bashar Assad, enjoys direct military support for his massacres.
The list of past examples of Putin’s abusive rule in Russia.
Murdering enemies
The list of people suspected murdered on orders from the Russian leader or people close to him is long. It includes several of Putin’s early critics (paywall), among them liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and exiled former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. A UK government report showed that Litvinenko’s death—he was poisoned using polonium in London was “probably” approved by Putin.
Both Politkovskaya and Litvinenko had tried to investigate a series of bombings in 1999, when Putin was prime minister, that killed some 300 people in four Russian cities. The authorities blamed the bombings on Chechen rebels and used them as a pretext to unleash a war on Chechnya, but they were a “false-flag” attack by Russia’s own own security services.
When confronted with Putin’s record of killings on a TV show in 2015, Donald Trump, who would win the US presidential election the following year, answered, “Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe.” He added, “I’ve always felt fine about Putin. He’s a strong leader. He’s a powerful leader.” Note – Trump admires strongmen.
Imprisoning dissenters
According to a list from Russian human-rights group Memorial, there were 102 people held in Russian prisons for their political beliefs as of 2016. In this, Putin’s Russia was continuing Tsarist and Soviet traditions, sending political dissenters to Siberia or to work camps as in Stalinist days. Famous past prisoners have included oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, feminist punk collective Pussy Riot, Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, and Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.
The press?
In Russia, Putin killed the free press and reporters.
Occupying foreign territories
Best just to list them!
- Georgia
- Chechnya
- Crimea in 2014 and eastern Ukraine.
- Ukraine 2022
- Moldova – supports rebels
- World wide – he has his tentacles into most regional conflicts
His signature in wars – attacks on the innocent – food shortages to control – military aggression – Assassination
Behind some of the world’s worst bloodshed
Seeking to gain influence in the Middle East, Putin supported the murderous regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in what was then the deadliest war of the 21st century. Russia’s military help was priceless to Assad. Western powers and the UN accused the alliance of indiscriminately targeting civilians. In the siege and recapture of Aleppo by Assad and his allies, reports from the ground indicated Syrian forces were slaughtering civilian families.
International Criminal Court issue an arrest warrant
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for war crimes for President Vladimir V. Putin. The court says that Mr. Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Add other war crimes and using chemical weapons to the list.
Summary
Octaputin is a killer. Thus, he meets and exceeds the definition of a dark triad type ruler. He loves targeting civilians as seen in the war in Ukraine, Syria and his enemies in other counties. Currently, he threatens nuclear war on the rest of the planet almost daily. Our planet will be safer and better off without this mad man!