Wontd: Ruśn reṿluśn t topl tîrnt. Intrnl aplic̣nts welcm
(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 26 March 2022)
Pūtin’z mrdṛs rên cn onli b endd frm wɖn. Wstn pǎrz mst nǎ d ol ɖe cn t incurij a cù
Sîmn Tizdl, Saṭde 26 Marć 2022
Opnli acnolijd or nt, reźīmćenj in Mosco – mīnñ ɖ oṿʈro v Vḷdīmir Pūtin – mst b ɖ wstn dmocrsiz’ ultiṃt objctiv az ɖe hlp t ʈwort hiz conqest v Ycren. Psywñ impirịl fanṭsiz, a zar-lîc Pūtin hz gn tù far ɖs tîm. Nǎ h’z got t g. Rjntli rqîrd: a ny Ruśn reṿluśn t topl ɖ tîrnt, léd frm wɖn n asistd frm wɖt.
Ɖ îdīa v Pūtin rmenñ in pǎr, īvn f a Ycren setlmnt z ivnć̣li paćt tgɖr, z bʈ impracticl n obsin. Bî hiz inhymn ax́nz, Ruśa’z dictetr hz plest himslf bynd ɖ pel. H’z a menis t yṇvrsl ordr, an afrunt t comn dīsnsi. H simpli canot b trustd.
Dspt rzǎndñ inṭnaśnl condmneśn, ɖ daṃjñ impact v wstn sañśnz on Ruśa’z ppl, ɖ rzultñ ʈret t globl fūd n eṇji s’plîz, n dêli evidns ɖt hiz il-léd armd forsz r in dīp trubl, Pūtin apirz dtrmind t fît on, īvn t esc̣let. Last wīc’s dis’pôntñ Nato sumit wl hv dn litl t dswed him.
YS prezidnt Jo Bîdn wornz ɖs blînd fnaṭsizm cd brñ on a deʈstrugl, līdñ t Ruśn ys v cemicl, bạlojicl or īvn batlfīld ńclir wepnz. Ɖ Cremlin dz nt rūl it ǎt. Sć crūd blacmeil z no besis fr eni cnd v sen rleśnśp.
Wośñtn hz nǎ forṃli akzd Ruśa v worcrîmz, fr ẃć Pūtin berz cmand rsponsbiḷti, n vaud t brñ him t justis. Ɖ YN’z hîist cort hz ordrd him t stop. Bîdn dīmz him a “worcriminl” n a “pyr ʈug”. Hu, in ɖer harts, oṇstli dis’griz? Īvn hiz Ćînīz ćumz lc ascans.
Fr az loñ az h holdz pǎr, Pūtin wl pǒz a ptnṣ́li xistnśl ʈret t ɖ s’krti v Yrp n ɖ wîdr wrld. Hiz cntmt fr hymn lîf, rîts, inṭnaśnl lw n ɖ YN ćartr dsqoḷfî him frm eni fyćr līdrśp rǒl. Fr hu cn dǎt ɖ Ycren wor wd hōlt f h wr unsītd? Ɖr wl b no pīs ẃl Pūtin’z arnd. H’z unfit. H’z an ǎtlw. H’z a secnd Baśar al-Asad. H mst fōl.
Lojicli, practicli n moṛli spīcñ, ɖ YS n its alîz hv no oltrṇtiv bt t activli sīc hiz oṿʈro. Ɖe canot d’recli inṭvin in Ruśa. Bt ɖe cn n śd mc it plen t Ruśa’z ilīts n wîdr public ɖt Pūtin z a lạbiḷti, a dedweit n a denjr, prîmrli t ɖm – n ɖt ɖ wst wl bac ɖm f ɖe muv agnst him. Ppl ofn se reṿluśn wl nvr hapn. Bt ɖe sd ɖt abt Nicolae Ceaușescu, Erich Honecker, Hosni Mbarac, Frdinand Marcos, Anastasio Somoza, ɖ Śa v Iran – n Zar Nicḷs II. So mbi ɖ’r roñ abt Pūtin tù.
Ɖr’z gd rīzn t b’liv ol ɖoz biłner oḷgarcs, stetinḍstri bosz, sic̣fantic Dūma poḷtiśnz, brêdd jenrlz n Oblomov-lîc byṛcrats hu hv dn wel undr Pūtin r hvñ secnd ʈts nǎ az sañśnz bît, asets frīz, forn travl hōlts, hǎzz n yots r sizd, n ɖ rūbl craśz.
Its guṿnñclas hz mć t lūz az Ruśa hrtlz intu rseśn n îṣleśn – n it’s śowñ. Bîpást Cremlin insîdrz n FSB spūcs r rportidli siɖñ wɖ angr. Pūtin’z bumḅlñ dfnsministr, Srge Śôgu, n armi ćīf v staf hv dis’pird frm vy. A sīńr envô, Aṇtoli Ćbîs, jumt śip last wīc. Mnẃl, Ycren rports 1917-stîl dzrśnz bî Ruśa’z dmoṛlîzd fruntlîn trūps.
Az fr ɖ loñ-suḟrñ, mć-bambuzld Ruśn ppl, no amǎnt v reźīmpropganda cn hîd ɖer ny dêli riaḷti v fūdkz, rîzñ prîsz, medicl śorṭjz n clozd bancs. Ʈǎzndz hv demnstretd agnst ɖ inveźn, brevñ p’līsbrūtaḷti. Ʈǎzndz mor yuñ pṛfeśnlz – Ruśa’z fyćr – r muvñ abrōd az parnôd Pūtin relz agnst a treṭrs “fifʈ coḷm”.
Ɖ longr ɖ wor, ɖ hayr ɖ caźltiz n costs, ɖ mor public angr me b d’rectd at Pūtin. Ɖ wst śd incris ɖ preśr n fsiḷtet hiz deṃliśn ʈru tîtr, dīpr sañśnz (includñ, crūṣ́li, on eṇji xports), ofnsiv militri ed t Cyīv n xpandd brōdcast n sośl mīdia inḟmeśncampenz insd Ruśa.
Eni fyćr līdr sīmz most lîcli t cm frm wɖn ɖ Cremlin aṗreṭs. A trnziśnl figr cd imrj in mć ɖ sem we az dd Pūtin himslf in ɖ dayñ dez v Boris Yeltsin’z prezidnsi. At ɖ uɖr end v ɖ opziśnspectrm, ɖ olwz dfaynt Alexe Nvalni z a potnt raliyñfors.
Ɖ toṗlñ v Pūtin me pruv a loñ-trm asṗreśn or cd hapn vri qcli. Historicli, ćenj in Ruśa ofn ocŕz abrupli. Ɖ hop wd b fr a subsiqnt muv t fri, deṃcratic ilex́nz. Yt ẃt hapnz ultiṃtli dpndz on Ruśnz ɖmslvz.
T max̣mîz ɖ ćansz v s’xes, ɖ wstn pǎrz śd cnsidr ol ovrt n covrt meʈ̇dz v incuṛjñ ny līdrśp, includñ p’liticl insntivz, s’krtigaṛntìz n phps īvn a “muni bac” scīm fr rpntnt oḷgarcs. F apilz t prínsipl d nt wrc, apilz t slf-inṭrest me.
YY n Nato membrz mst agri, tù, ɖt Pūtin z nt smwn ɖe cn evr d biznis wɖ agn. Let’s hop Frans n Jrṃni gt ɖ mesij. Liz Trus, Britn’z foṛn secrtri, z cnsrnd ɖe me let Pūtin of ɖ hc bî oḟrñ a rvîzd, Minsc-tîp compṛmîz ovr ɖ Ycreńnz’ hedz, similr t ɖer feld Crîmīa iniṣ́tiv.
Mnẃl, bacslîdñ, fns-sitñ, ostnsbli pro-wstn guvnmnts in Izrel, India, Trci, Sǎdi Arebia n ɖ YAE ɖt rfyz t sañśn Ruśa, mst b frmli rmîndd hu ɖer riyl frendz r – n hǎ ɖer inṭrests r bst srvd.
It’s nt bî sucñ p t a worcriminl. It’s nt bî raśṇlîzñ or miṇmîzñ an unpṛvoct wor v agreśn agnst a soṿrin dmocrsi. It’s bî dwñ ol ɖe cn t hlp Ruśnz n ɖer frendz in ɖ wst brñ Pūtin’z mrdṛs rên t an end. Az Bolṣ́vic reṿluśnriz wns craid, so mst Ruśa’z ppl crî agn: “Pīs! Land! Bred!”
