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I, Putin

oscar
3 min readAug 19, 2024

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‘Ukrainians have invaded Russian soil. Again. (8/6/24)
This time it was the Kursk region, on our Southwest border.
How dare they? But I understand they are desperate and are trying to scare me.
Zelensky keeps begging the West to allow them to fire their long range weapons deeper into Russia. But the West will deny their request because they fear that if they do allow such strikes, some miscalculation may occur and I will carry out my threat of firing nuclear weapons on them. It could be any city. New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin. Whichever I feel like striking. Maybe even Tokyo. Maybe all of them at once.
I may or may not order suck strike but they’d rather not test me.
I’ve enjoyed a great advantage over Ukraine, firing on them from my territory while they are restricted from firing upon us.
That’s my sagacity. My brilliance. To keep everybody guessing.
I owe Xi Jinping for backing me up. For supplying me with everything we need to bypass the sanctions the West has imposed on us. In doing so, China has become my full accomplice in my mass killing and destruction of Ukraine.
But I’m mindful, too, that a bolder West, a West that became committed to success, could say to Xi, “We won’t let Ukraine fail. If you help Russia fire on Ukraine from inside Russian territory, we’ll give Ukrainians permission to use the long range weapons we give them to fire back to take out those positions wherever they are. And if Putin threatens a nuclear…

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