In Episode 144 [12] of the CounterVortex podcast [13], Bill Weinberg notes Putin's annexation [14] of Ukraine's Donbas region not only came on exactly the same day [15] as the 1938 Munich Agreement [16], which approved Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland [17]—it was also the same day that Putin launched two of his previous criminal military adventures. On Sept. 30, 1999, Russian tanks rolled into Chechnya [18], marking the start of the Second Chechen War [19], with massive aerial bombardment [20] of the region's capital city of Grozny. On Sept. 30, 2015, Russia began air-strikes in Syria [21], marking the start of a massive military intervention [22] on behalf of the Bashar Assad dictatorship, in which the city of Aleppo would be virtually destroyed by bombardment [23]. And in Putin's new war of aggression in Ukraine, the Azov seaport of Mariupol has been similarly nearly obliterated [24]. A review of this history reveals Vladimir Putin as a serial city-destroyer, who must be deposed and put on trial for his crimes against humanity. Listen on SoundCloud [12] or via Patreon [25].
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