
Pūtin hz bcm a globl bǒgiman. Ruśnz mst xorsîz ɖs gūl
Transcription of an Observer article of 23 July 2023
Acrst, ostṛsîzd bt hīdlis v ɖ miẓri h cōzz, ɖs akzd wor criminl z dragñ hiz ppl intu a moṛl abis

Súnde, 23 Jlî 2023
Evrwn wonts a pìs v Ruśn prezidnt Vladīmir Pūtin. Vira Ćernŭca, dfaynt amd ɖ ruinz v hr vilij in norʈīst Ycren, crsz him ć mornñ. Ś wonts t si him spinñ in hiz cofin, tormntd, unśrivn n dámd fr ol itrṇti. Ćernŭca mt b sd t spīc fr hr neśn f nt ɖ intîr wstn wrld.
Ɖ Inṭnaśnl Criminlcort (ICC) wonts t arest Pūtin fr worcrîmz, alejñ mas ćîld abdux́nz. Ḿtiṇs Wagner mrṣnriz brīfli wontd t topl hiz reźīm – n grevli wìcnd him. Hrǒic opziśn līdr Alexe Nvalni jst wonts him t śut p. H’z bn forst t lisn t ɖ sem Pūtin spīć in jel ć de fr mor ɖn 100 dez.
Nirli 18 munʈs intu hiz inveźn v Ycren, a ctastṛfi hol̦i v hiz mcñ, ɖ mć-loɖd, riḍkld, ostṛsîzd n acrst Pūtin, hol̦i indifṛnt t ɖ miẓri h cōzz, hz bcm, in difṛnt wez, ɖ wrld’z most wontd man – n poṣbli its most denjṛs tù.
Pūtin imbodiz Ruśa’z inṭnaśnl îṣleśn n growñ spirićl degṛdeśn. Lîc a dìmn, hobgoblin or Crācn v enćnt foclor, h’z meṭmorfozd intu globl bǒgiman or buġbu – a monstṛs, nîtmẹriś figr psoṇfayñ īvl. Pūtinizm z a graf ćartñ ɖ arc v modn mraḷti. Ɖ ziro on ɖ scel z him.
A wst-sntric xaɉreśn? Phps. Mor Ruśnz s’pozidli apruv v Pūtin ɖn d’nt, jst az ɖer dludd fōrberz adord Stalin ẃl h mrdrd miłnz. Mni amñ Doṇld Trump’s Maga mob aplōd him. N ɖ Cremlin clemz Pūtin rsivd an “astǎndñ” rocstar welcm in Daġstān aftr ɖ Wagner scer.
Big dīl. N fec nyz enwe.
Īvn bfr Ycren, fy arnd ɖ wrld mć lîct or trustd ɖs smrcñ, snīci-lcñ x-CGB ʈug. Rspctd him az Ruśa’z līdr? Śr. Toḷretd or fird him, yes. Bt admîrd him prsṇli? No. Frendlis, paṛnôd Pūtin z t c’rizma ẃt a slug z t leṭs. N nǎ, h’z Ruśa’z hyj, hazmat lạbiḷti.
Ʈri probḷmatic preẓdnśl trips abrōd ɖs yir draṃtîz ɖ lonlinis v ɖ loñ-distns tîṛnt. Ɖ frst, t mīt felo Brics līdrz in Sǎʈ Africa nxt munʈ, wz abrupli cansld last wīc in a vri public hymilieśn.
Pūtin wz disinvîtd bcz, az a stetparti t ɖ ICC, Sǎʈ Africa z līġli oblîjd t infors ɖ cort’s arestwoṛnt. Ɖ Cremlin hd wontd t g ahd, insistñ h hd dipḷmatic iḿṇti. Bt Carim Cān, ɖ ICC’z ćīf proṣktr, sd inṭnaśnl lw mst hv presidns.
Pūtin wns travld ɖ wrld lîc eni uɖr naśnl līdr. Bt ɖt wz bfr Litṿńenco’z mrdr. It’s bn dǎnhil evr sins
Siril Ramaphosa, Sǎʈ Africa’z prezidnt, wz còt on a hc v hiz ǒn mcñ. “Ńtṛl” Sǎʈ Africa rfyzz t cndem Pūtin’z inveźn. Yt it’s akzd v smuglñ wepnz t Ruśa. Oponnts se ɖ rūlñ parti’z vy z skwrd bî caś-dneśnz fṛm Cremlin-linct oḷgarcs. Ɖ guvnmnt fest līgl ax́n t fors it t obe ɖ ICC.
So Ramaphosa cevd, telñ Pūtin t ste hom. Arestñ him wd b “a decḷreśn v wor”, h clemd. Pifl. It wd hv bn a rzǎndñ decḷreśn v lw. Ramaphosa míst hiz ples in hisṭri.
Pūtin’z prsnl pôznclǎd cd tent Trci, tù, f a vizit t Anc̣ra gz ahd nxt munʈ. Trci z a membr v Nato, wɖ ẃć Pūtin dīmz Ruśa t b at wor. Yt its prezidnt, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, apirz mor inṭrestd in ćīp Ruśn gas ɖn nośnz v wstn yṇti n soḷdaṛti wɖ Cyīv.
Erdoğan portrez himslf az a pīs-mcr, ẃć z hǎ h jusṭfîz Pūtin’z invteśn. Bt Ruśa’z imoṛl recñ last wīc v ɖ YN-bact Blac Sī gren-xport dīl ɖt Trci hlpt ngośiet līvz him lcñ lîc a ysfl idịt. Prṗsḟli or nt, Erdoğan z “norṃlîzñ” Pūtin – bî gvñ him a ćans t ple ɖ stetsmn, sîdlîn Cyīv n dvîd Nato.
Pūtin wns travld ɖ wrld lîc eni uɖr naśnl līdr. H met Jorj W Bś at ɖ Ẃît Hǎs, turd Yṛp n injoid a stetvizit t ɖ YC in 2003. Bt ol ɖt wz bfr Aḷxandr Litṿńenco’z mrdr in Lundn in 2006, ńmṛs adiśnl asaṣneśnz v Pūtin critics at hom n abrōd, n ɖ 2008 inveźn v Jorja. It’s bn dǎnhil evr sins.
Az hiz spectṛl bǒgiman imij grù, so Pūtin’z inṭnaśnl axpṭbiḷti śranc. Sins Febrri last yir, onli Iran, Beḷrūs n sm formr Sovịt rpublics (plus adorñ Daġstān) hv bn onrd bî hiz prezns. H brīfli travld t okpaid Ycren in Epril – bt ɖt wz stricli nt bî invteśn.
Pūtin’z bêlfl prezns z stl flt in a rogz’ gaḷri v bnîtd cuntriz. Ɖ Sirịn reźīm v felo worcriminl Baśar al-Asad z a prîm xampl. Last wīc’s YY sumit wɖ Latin Americn cuntriz wz olmst rect bî Nic̣rağa, Kba n Veṇzwela’z rluctns t snśr Pūtin. Telñli, Norʈ C’rīa’z Cim Jong-un, ɖ ultiṃt ǎtcast, ʈncs ɖ wrld v him.
Yt hǎ mć longr wl Ruśnz toḷret ɖs wicid, incompitnt, ostṛsîzd man hu cōzz ɖm sć dredfl repyteśnl, ic̣nomic n hymn harm? Ɖ Wagner rbełn spouc t a dīpr mleiz v ɖ Ruśn soul. Hǎ lo mst ɖe ol snc, ẃt depʈs mst ɖe plúm, in ordr ɖt Pūtin cn avôd dfit n oblivịn?
Ɖz r qsćnz Ćîna’z prezidnt, Ći Jinpñ, wl śrli asc himslf az h priperz t grīt Pūtin in Bêźñ in Octobr. It’s poṣbl Ći olrdi rgrets ɖ “no-limits” partnrśp agrìd prīYcren. Ćîna hz sins run intu big probḷmz v its ǒn, prîmṛli a slumpñ icoṇmi. Ɖ deṃliśn v ɖ Pūtin stroñman-miʈ hz unsetld Bêźñ.
Ɖ last ʈñ Ći wonts rît nǎ z a nīdi globl p’raia nocñ at hiz dor, sīcñ ri’śuṛns, armz n asistns. Phps, unlîc so mni uɖrz, Ći dz’nt wont a pìs v Pūtin. Phps, on ɖ contrri, h wonts rid v him – n wd welcm a les denjṛs, mor pridictbl rplesmnt.
Wl Ći d evrwn a fevr n hlp Ruśnz xorsîz ɖ bǒgiman? It’s an intrigñ, hopfl ʈt.