President Kennedy's call, 'let them come to Berlin,' still has lessons to teach 60 years later WashTimesOpEd
Standing in the shadow of the wall that would divide Europe’s desolate East and from its flourishing West for nearly three decades, the youthful American president said: “There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin.
In an interview last month with a pro-Kremlin blogger who was subsequently fired, Mr. Putin’s erstwhile ally, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, revealed that his organization’s mercenaries had already suffered 20,000 casualties fighting in Ukraine. He also acknowledged that Russia’s goal to demilitarize Ukraine had backfired because Kyiv now boasts a battle-hardened fighting force with an expanding arsenal of sophisticated weapons.
But of even greater concern from Mr. Putin’s perspective, Mr. Prigozhin argued that the war in Ukraine has backfired so disastrously that the Kremlin is risking another “revolution” at home. Defeats in foreign wars have long been threat multipliers, both for Russia’s long line of czars and their Soviet successors. Russia’s ill-fated war with Japan resulted in a failed revolution in 1905, which set the stage for the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 after Russia was defeated in World War I.
Mr. Marlowe is banking on Russians seeing through Mr. Putin’s propaganda about enemy Ukrainian “Nazis” at the gates at a time when Russia has become an isolated, subservient resource colony of a dominant China. Mr. Putin’s coldblooded grip on the Kremlin might be increasingly at risk, but the “motherland” is under no such threat. Ukraine, by contrast, is fighting for its very existence and to recapture territory that Russia illegally annexed by force.
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