Thread by @ChakhoyanAndrew

POO-tihn doesn’t want to end the war, that much is clear.

But here’s a question, rarely asked: can he?

I came across an open letter by Soviet-born writer & filmmaker Eduard Topol to Trump that digs into this, and it’s worth sharing.

Here it is, as a thread ⤵️
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Dear Mr. President!
Dear Donald!

As the author of 50 books & a dozen films about 🇷🇺, I consider myself entitled to inform you.

You must know that putin cannot stop the war with 🇺🇦, even if you gift him your Mar-a-Lago, Trump Tower in New York, & a dozen of your golf clubs.
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And not because he doesn’t want a break from war, but because he simply cannot

Because he knows 🇷🇺 history

The return of 🇷🇺 troops from Europe after the victory over Napoleon led to the anti-tsarist uprising in 1825

🇷🇺’s defeat in a War with 🇯🇵 led to the 1905 Revolution

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The desertion of a million Russian soldiers from the Russo-German front during World War I forced Emperor Nicholas II to abdicate and caused the February Revolution of 1917.

The peace signed by Lenin with Germany allowed the Bolsheviks to execute the entire royal family.

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The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in February 1989 marked the beginning of the USSR’s collapse.
Knowing this, Putin cannot end the war with 🇺🇦 and bring his troops home.

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Only the opportunity in May 1945 to keep almost his entire army in Europe as occupation forces helped Stalin avoid a postwar coup.

That is why Putin dreams of occupying Ukraine, as well as the Baltics, Finland, Poland, etc., to keep his army far away from Moscow.

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He remembers how 525K soldiers returning from 🇦🇫 in 1989 turned into bandits who terrorized the entire population of the USSR.

And he knows what will happen if 1.5M soldiers, trained to kill, loot, and rape professionally, return home from the Ukrainian front.

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The war with 🇺🇦 has allowed Putin to get rid of 2M of the most active opponents of his regime, whom he forced to flee 🇷🇺, while the rest of the young 🇷🇺 men he either drove to the front or recruited into punitive services.

Today, any war—against 🇺🇦, the Baltics, NATO, anyone at all—is the best way to enforce 🇷🇺’s obedience to Putin & his junta.

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Unfortunately, none of your advisers will explain this to you

I don’t want Putin—a KGB man, a thief & a murderer of millions—to keep brazenly deceiving you, lying, & misleading my President

Of course, I’m not a military expert or political scientist, but I’m a writer with a good memory

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I remember how Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II managed to push oil prices down to $9 per barrel, gave the Afghans “Stingers,” and thereby stopped Moscow’s takeover of Afghanistan and destroyed the USSR.

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If you want to stop Putin and the imperial ambitions of at least half of Russia’s population, you need to do the same—bring oil prices down to at least $25 per barrel and give Ukraine the weapons that will help it crush the aggressor.

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nypost.com/2024/12/07/opi…

As for your desire to establish 🇺🇸-🇷🇺 business partnerships, not in words but in reality, this could happen in a 100 years—or never at all

If you are interested in why, call me and I will explain

Respectfully, EDUARD TOPOL, citizen of 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱

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End.
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