Putin’s “Total Replacement Plan” for Ukraine

The fighting subsided a bit during the ceasefire negotiations, but this seems to have been an excellent stall for the Russian military, which was having trouble with logistics (logistical support such as the maintenance and transport of food and weapons). The fighting has resumed and is likely to intensify.

President Vladimir Putin (69) is ready to use even a small tactical nuclear weapon to break the deadlock. Naturally, Russia would face worldwide condemnation, but it is a possibility. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) will not launch nuclear weapons at Russia just because it uses nuclear weapons,” said Masaki Takabe, a former mercenary and military critic.

The world is facing the biggest crisis of the 21st century: on February 24, President Vladimir Putin finally invaded Ukraine. He attacked from the north, south, and east, raiding the capital, Kiev, and the second largest city, Kharkiv. The situation is becoming increasingly grim, as ceasefire negotiations that began on February 28 in Belarus have yielded no results.

A reporter from the Moscow bureau of a national newspaper said.

The situation is becoming increasingly difficult. At first, political scientists and military journalists from around the world were convinced that Russia would not invade. This is because the damage caused by economic sanctions by Western countries would be too great, even though Russia has natural gas interests. In fact, Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) was decided. This is a system that enables settlement between international banks and is the main means of settlement for international trade. The Russian economy and the Russian market will be isolated and devastated by the loss of access to foreign currency.

In fact, the ruble has plummeted by as much as 30%. Yet, why invade Ukraine?　This is probably because they believe that they can get more out of Ukraine than they can lose from economic sanctions by the Western countries. Putin is trying to set the world back again to an era of the weak and the strong.

Itsuro Nakamura, a professor at Tsukuba University and an expert on Russian politics, said.

President Putin’s real goal is to direct the large number of Ukrainian refugees toward European countries. The war has pushed more than 500,000 refugees into neighboring countries such as Poland and Moldova. The aim is to use the refugees to paralyze the economies of Eastern European countries. In the meantime, they attack U.S. military facilities deployed in Eastern European countries. I believe that they are trying to regain control of areas controlled by the former Soviet Union.

According to Nakamura, the key mission of the invasion of Ukraine was to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the worst “negative legacy” in human history. In the background is President Vladimir Putin’s plan to “replace the entire population” of Ukraine.

Putin may be thinking, on the one hand, of contaminating Kiev with radiation so that no one will be able to live there,” Nakamura said. He is probably looking to push anti-Putin people to Eastern European countries as refugees and create a puppet government mainly in pro-Russian areas such as eastern Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula. For Putin, this invasion of Ukraine is a life-long revenge against the West, especially the U.S.” (Nakamura)

President Putin has criticized the Ukrainian government as “neo-Nazis. In reality, however, the overwhelming majority of people compare Putin to Hitler. One can only guess at the end of a dictator’s life.

From the March 18, 2022 issue of FRIDAY