Scott Allan’s World

Throughout history, when powerful leaders seemingly go mad, it was due to contracting syphilis. What started out as a friendly relationship with great potential has deteriorated throughout the years as Putin has become more power hungry and paranoid. He views the scum of the world as his friends and the United States is now a threat when in reality we are their best hope for peace and prosperity. Being a “counter-weight to the U.S.” is not a strategy that has worked well for France lately. Putin seems to make deals with the devil in order to grab more and more power.

Lately he has claimed the North Pole for Russia and started military maneuvers near Alaska which he thinks somehow bothers us. He’s almost acting like Kim Jong-Il who needs the world to pay attention to him and throws a tantrum whenever the news is focused somewhere else. He recently declared a holiday and awarded prizes for those who procreate to increase the population. Russia has the lowest life expectancy of any industrialized nation and the population is dropping at an alarming rate. I’m not sure increasing the population is a good idea when many people are still in poverty and you want to start an arms race.

This is what I see happening. Putin starts an arms race that he can’t win. Either he will use all the new found oil profits to build up his military until he ends up in a delusional, ill-advised war that basically destroys the world or he spends his country into bankruptcy again and loses power. I’m hoping it’s the second option. If the vaunted Soviet military could not beat Afghanistan in 10 years, and we took them down in a matter of weeks, are you really worried? Communism usually results in an inefficient use of resources and the Russian people are not likely to give up their freedom so easily this time. Putin had the opportunity to lead Russia into a new era of prosperity, as a friend of the West, and as a leader against terrorism. Sadly, he is blowing it.

Do you think he’ll poison me with some radioactive tea?