Comparing the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, similarities and dissimilarities exist.

Similarities include:

Dissimilarities include:

One more similarity/dissimilarity is left to play out.

It would require a second Persian Gulf War in 2003 to end Hussein’s aggression. On the run, the filthy and unshaven leader was discovered nine months later hiding in a spider hole. Tried, convicted and executed in 2006 by the Iraqi government that replaced his own, Hussein was quickly buried in his birthplace in Tikrit.

Interestingly, Hussein’s gravesite over the years was vandalized, burned, attacked and otherwise desecrated. When the government ordered the body be moved elsewhere, it was discovered to be missing, one report claiming it had been fed to dogs. Quite an inglorious ending for a ruthless leader.

This raises the question, as Putin continues to be embarrassed by a determined Ukrainian military that has inflicted upon Russia an estimated 200,000 casualties, both dead and wounded, what will be his fate? He has already been the target of several assassination attempts as his people grow hostile to his self-glorifying effort to create a new Soviet empire. Some critics believe his days are numbered.

Like Hussein, will Putin too suffer such an ignominious end or, foreseeing what might befall him, will he rein in his aggression, recognizing his dream of empire is not to be realized?

Hussein and Putin had different mothers but clearly they are brothers in sharing the same negative attributes of dictatorial ruthlessness and vainglorious personalities.

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