Putin, assassin consented by the United Nations

The heinous and cowardly attack ordered by Putin on a maternal and children's hospital in Mariupol, in southwestern Ukraine, the bombing of villages and the killing of civilians, including children, demonstrates the profile of a psychopath similar to Hitler or his compatriot Stalin.

But not only the medical center in Mariupol has been subjected to military aggression, but other similar establishments, in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1997, which give them specific protection.

The Kremlin has affected 20 health facilities, as reported by the World Health Organization, without the Moscow government receiving sanctions for these criminal acts, which constitute crimes against humanity according to the Statutes of the International Criminal Court, and which, because of their extreme cruelty, should lead to their expulsion from that organism.

The question is, were the United Nations and Western governments unaware of the totalitarian nature of this former KGB agent, who for 22 years now has concentrated all the powers of the State?

Wasn't the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2004 or the barbaric acts committed in Syria in 2016 a test of its expansionist policy?

Or did they forget the devastation of Chechnya, “totally devastated by the Russian army in 1999, with massive bombardments that seek almost total destruction, terrorize civilians and force the creation of humanitarian corridors so that the population can flee and leave the road to a final offensive”? (El País 13/03/2022), a strategy that Putin is now pursuing in Ukraine.

Russian journalist Anna Politkovkaia covered the invasion of Chechnya, reporting on atrocities by the Russian army. El País recalls that it “narrated the mass executions and rapes, the beheadings and the stories of people burned alive with flamethrowers.” Harassed by the regime, this admirable writer was first poisoned and survived, until she was killed by machine gun fire in an elevator in Moscow on October 7, 2006.

All these episodes were known, but out of fear or weakness the powers did little or nothing to stop the dictator's advance.

Putin, however, was invited to participate in countless events with heads of state of democratic nations, fraternized with their leaders and conducted business for his government or for the benefit of the Russian billionaires who support him.

The same happened with Hitler, who from 1933 to 1938 rearmed his Armed Forces, violating the Treaty of Versailles, murdering thousands of Jews, destroying the opposition, annexing Austria first and then the Sudeten Czechoslovakia

The League of Nations, the predecessor of the UN, did not flinch, nor did the European foreign ministries, until the start of World War II.

Rather, some governments tried to fraternize with the German tyrant and that weakness cost humanity the loss of fifty million lives.

The sanctions imposed on the Russian government are a positive step towards isolating, weakening and overthrowing it.

That is, to prevent this emulus of Hitler and Stalin from continuing to kill human beings.

But those sanctions are not enough. A cancer cell must be removed at the root because it can cause metastasis.

It is unacceptable, in this context, that the Putin regime should maintain its status as a permanent and veto member of a Security Council that has derided by violating all its principles.

Withdrawing his membership would be an act of diplomatic honor.

Latin American countries should convene their ambassadors in Moscow as an expression of protest at what is happening in Ukraine and suspend purchases of war material from Russia.

In other words, not to stand idly by, not to remain indifferent to the massacre of the heroic Ukrainian people, who resist with admirable courage the attacks of a satrap.

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