an open letter to vladimir putin president of russia

Dear Mr Putin.
If you have decided to hand over atomic weapons to Al Qaeda there is nothing I can do to deter you.
I was disquieted by the fake hijacking last week of a Russian ship in the Baltic sea and the sailing of that ship to Africa.
We both know it wasn't a Maltese ship or any other sort of ship.
We both know it was Russian.
Just as we both know you are the President of Russia not Mr Medvedev the puppet you allow to wear the sash.
I have noted your attempts to prepare Russians for war with the west.
I have noted that in the aftermath of recent Al Qaeda attacks in Ingushetia you permitted the Moscow appointed Muslim leader of Ingushetia to claim the murders of twenty people there had been carried out by America, Britain and Israel. (This quote was in Western Newspapers. If it is inaccurate I apologise.)
I have noted that elements of your security apparatus the FSB were responsible for several assassinations outside Russia, including the savage polonium poisoning of Mr Lugevoy in London, the attempted poisoning of the Ukrainian President, and the murder of a Georgian politician.
I have noted that you permitted the assassin who carried out the murder of Mr Lugevoy in London to take a seat in the Russian parliament.
I have noted that you invaded Georgia on the eve of the Olympics in an act that was as crass as it was piratical, and that you have detached two regions from that country by force.
I have noted your instruction to the heavy bombers of the Russian airforce to resume incursions into Western European airspace.
I have noted your alliances with South American tin pot dictators such as Chavez in Venezuela, Morales in Bolivia and the Castros in Cuba.
I have noted your sad attempts to convince the Russian people that Stalin was good for them.
I have noted your ongoing attempts to destroy the independent media in Russia.
I have noted your foolish alliance with Iran and Syria and Al Qaeda.
I have noted all these things.
Even so.
You are not a leader without courage or ability.
It is not too late for you to adopt a more enlightened policy.
It is not too late for you to recognise that Russians and Russia were not born to be the enslavers and ultimate destroyers of the human race.
It is not too late for you to change from the course of apocalypse.
Russia and Russians were not born to be hated and despised by every other free country on the planet.
Russia and Russians were not made for barbarity Mr Putin.
The people of Russia want and deserve something better than the blatent resovietisation of their society which you have been engineering.
Even for Hitler there was a time when he might have chosen other than he did.
One of his secretaries claims that on the eve of the conflagration which was World War Two, Hitler stood at an open air balcony in his mountain lodge looking down the valleys where all of nature seemed to be in ferment. A magnificent and terrible tempest, a storm of light and shadow, was howling through the bleak fastnesses.
The secretary claims she told him that the coming war would mean limitless destruction.
Hitler is said to have replied: "So be it."
Mr Putin, I don't always believe women when they make these sort of claims.
I have my doubts that there were many underlings on Hitler's general staff telling the Fuhrer to his face the truth he needed to hear.
Nonetheless.
I think probably you are in a similar situation to the situation he was in on that night.
No one among your staff is brave enough to tell you the truth.
Not to your face.
Mr Putin you are standing on the balcony looking down upon a storm of limitless satanic evil that has not yet been unleashed.
This is the last time I shall attempt to counsel you not to unleash it.
James Healy