A national defense expert and retired Army general is not ruling out the possibility of Vladimir Putin getting removed from power.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been much speculation about whether Putin’s original goal was to subvert Ukraine and then eventually move on the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, even though they are part of NATO and such action could likely trigger an Article 5 response.
Article 5 covers “collective defense,” which means that an attack on one ally is considered an attack on all allies. Amid the current crisis, Article 5 could mandate a more direct response from the U.S. and other treaty members if Russian aggression escalates beyond Ukraine or if Putin does “the unthinkable” and detonates a nuclear bomb. So far, countries from the NATO alliance have refused to supply warplanes or fly patrols over Ukraine’s airspace – something that is expected to come up following the recent airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians.
“I think that he expected to go through Ukraine pretty quickly and then set himself up to be able to go into the Baltic region, but I think that he has been dissuaded of that now,” says Army Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC). “I think that there’s very little chance he’s going to do that anytime soon because he’s got some major rebuilding to do with his military. And I will say this: The good news is I don’t think Putin will be around to do that because he will not be in power when this thing is all said and done.”
In the meantime, Boykin believes the Russians will get further bogged down.
“I think that a couple of things are going to happen,” he submits. “The pressure from home, the pressure from the people of Russia is going to increase. And secondly, I think the pressure on Vladimir Putin is going to increase from not only the Russian people, but certainly the oligarchs and those that he has chosen to criticize right now.”
He also thinks it is possible that Putin could actually be “taken out.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
I’d LOVE IT if he was removed..
BUT as we have often seen in some of these nations.. THE new leaders are often WORSE than the older ones…
Putin’s Ukrainian depleted military dare not move on the Baltic states. This is not WWII where Stalin was backed, rearmed and supplied by America, Britain and France, after the Germans initially took out a million and a half of their Russian troops as another million defected to the west. Paranoid Stalin had already purged his own, just like Paranoid Putin is also now in the process. Since WWI, the Russian military has had a nasty established habit of killing off their own generals and leaders, first by the Czarist and Stalinist Leaders in the field, later by their own troops in the field. To date after 5 weeks of fighting the Russians have lost their 7th general. Don’t tell me that the Ukrainians killed even a majority, but were in reality mostly taken out by Putin, or his troops Putin misled and lied to. If there is a just God in heaven, Putin will either die like Hitler alone in his Fuhrer bunker inside a destroyed Moscow, or strangled to death in his own vomit like Stalin,,,,and as this Putin war and crimes go on Putin himself knows it, as his guilt ridden conscience now drives himself mad. For Putin, Failure in Ukraine is not an option, and when he goes he will take as many with him as he can.
Since he’s pulled a LOT of his military from his eastern areas, to go into Ukraine, i’d LOVE TO SEE someone ‘test the waters; and take OVER SOME OF HIS EASTERN LANDS!