The accusation that Putin is a 'war criminal' coming from the top U.S. leadership has far greater importance than Western media have given to it. For them, it is just one more joke in a long line of adjectives vilifying the Russian leader. For Biden as Vice President, Putin was ‘a thug.’ For Biden one month into his presidency, Putin was ‘a killer.’ Now the words ‘war criminal’ are actionable, not merely descriptive. In this regard, Vladimir Putin is no longer a man with whom you can negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine Instead, he is a dangerous man who you can justifiably assassinate.
A call for Putin’s assassination was made just weeks ago by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on 4 March. That utterly outrageous and vile statement was never properly rebuked by the President, by the Secretary of State.
If those in the Biden administration are actually seeking to have the Russian President assassinated, then it is one more example of their total ignorance of the ‘enemy,’ an ignorance that is possible only because anyone who knows something worth knowing is denounced in American universities and on air as a Putin stooge.
The murder of Vladimir Putin in the present context of the ongoing war to the death over global overlordship would precipitate the launch of Russia’s nuclear arsenal against the United States. As I have said in the past, the Russian political elite is much more aggressive and much readier to push the button than Vladimir Vladimirovich. I have also said and here repeat, that the Russian Federation likely has First Strike Capability, meaning that it can launch a nuclear attack first, destroy nearly all of America’s arsenals and most important population centers, disorganize or frustrate any counter attack, and rely on its well developed anti-ballistic missile defenses to ward off any of the residual U.S. capability. That was the clear objective of Putin back in 2007 when Russia was humiliated and impotent before the American hegemon. He reached that objective in 2018.