Enough About Kirk, We Cannot Forget Who the Real Villains Are
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
With the beginning of a new century in 2000 came new
villains. There are millions of men hoping that someday they will find a way to
gain greater power and even more outrageous wealth. Few have the opportunity,
so they serve those who do. We refer to them as oligarchs, and politicians.
America’s greatest enemy has been Vladimir Putin. In the
1980s he was a powerful member of the KGB. But that was just the beginning.
[Vladimir Putin first came to power in Russia on December
31, 1999, when he was appointed acting president following the surprise
resignation of Boris Yeltsin. He was then formally elected President in March
2000.]
Russia’s elections are a farce, and anyone who opposes Putin
is murdered. Three years ago Putin invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Although
thousands of his military have lost their lives, the violence continues today.
The President/Dictator of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came
into power in 2003. He began his reign of terror by declaring his nation would
be ruled by Sharia Law. When he learned that some of his military’s leaders
were planning a coup, he arrested and imprisoned tens of thousands of men and
women. The number of those incarcerated became so huge, he found it necessary to
build more prisons.
Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in
2016. In 2022 he was charged with “crimes against humanity” for his bloody
murders of drug dealers and drug users. He will be tried this month.
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman had journalist Jamal Khashoggi
murdered and cut into pieces in 2018. Khashoggi was a critic of the Saudi
government. President Trump helped his “friend” cover up the crime. Saudi
Arabia is the most rigid theocracy in the world.
North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is the latest
member of his family to become the ultimate ruler of his nation. He continues
to place his critics in the worst prisons in the world. Entire families have been
incarcerated without committing a crime. Many of his people are living in the
worst conditions imaginable and suffering from conditions ranging from
starvation to filth and disease, while Kim Jong-un continues to spend hundreds
of millions of dollars on nuclear weapons.
Benjamin Netanyahu won his first election as the Prime
Minister of Israel in 1996. In 2022, he once again became Israel’s leader. He
has refused to engage in discussions with Palestinian leaders designed to
create a permanent peace in the region. Netanyahu is currently engaged in
genocide, attempting to eradicate the Palestinian people. What began as an
effort to rescue hostages held by the terrorist group, Hamas, escalated into an
effort to force all Palestinians to leave Gaza or be slaughtered.
In 2016, Donald Trump became the first illegitimately
elected President of the United States, and its first dictator. In 2024 he won
another rigged election. His first actions in January of 2025 involved ethnic
cleansing. He is following the 922-page right-wing fascist manifesto called
Project 2025, destroying the very essence of America piece by piece. It is
well-known that his “heroes” are Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin.
With the exception of Duterte, who is facing life in prison,
these seven vile and sadistic rulers are the most powerful individuals in the
world in the 21st century. None of them have served their people.
All of them are motivated by their desires for great power and wealth. All of
them are enemies of the people they were elected to serve, and all good men,
women, and children around the world.
These are the evil men who are the greatest danger to world
peace in modern history.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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