NATO Must Attack Putin Before It’s Too Late

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There might be severe consequences if the West doesn’t interfere in this war. I know, I know — everyone is afraid of World War III. In his infamous televised address on February 24th, Putin has made it abundantly clear that “if someone interferes, they will suffer consequences unknown in history,” hinting that he’ll bomb them with nuclear weapons.

But there’s one thing Western leaders don’t understand: Putin is not like them. He’s a thug. And like all thugs, he only understands force. He sees anything else as weakness. And if you’re weak, you deserve to be subjugated.

Putin is a product of his (Soviet) environment. An environment that’s very different from what people in the U.S. are accustomed to. An environment where an individual human life means nothing — and the collective good is all that matters. An atmosphere of constant propaganda, censorship, and dictatorship. But it goes deeper than that.

If you study Putin’s history, you’ll see that the way he rose to power was not by traditional politician’s means. He grew up as a thug and a sociopath. Several critical incidents from Putin’s 22 years in power demonstrate this.

As a kid, Putin had a history of being involved in bad company. Later, as the right-hand man of Sobchak — the mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s — Putin repeatedly stole…