Vladimir Putin is a war criminal that must be stopped!

Vladimir Putin will have a sad and tragic ending: the sad and inevitable tragic thing about the opportunity he lost.

Vladimir Putin’s rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia ...he has spent his career cultivating his ambition to become an "Accidental Czar", constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. (Andrew S. Weiss)

Echo letter to the editor of the Lowell Sun newspaper, in Massachusetts:
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and Putin's surprising rise to power, it was widely accepted that there would be an economic integration with the West and that Western institutional norms, in terms of the criminal justice system and democratic processes, would follow. In the United States, governmental accommodations were developed to facilitate cultural and commercial exchanges. 

Chamber of Commerce affiliates offered workshops, and universities and colleges developed special programs with their Russian academic counterparts.

I was a member of the staff at Mount Wachusett Community College at the time and recall our vice president and members of the criminal justice staff visiting Russian colleges. In exchange, Russian professors arrived at the Gardner campus. They sat in on classes, toured area grammar and high schools, had lunch engagements with faculty and staff, and friendships developed. 

But Putin’s poisonings and killings of rivals and journalists, and his crimes against humanity with genocidal wars in Chechnya, Syria and now Ukraine have sealed his fate. He is an outcast on the world stage and no amount of outsized yachts or palatial estates will repair his reputation or fate.

— Genevieve Fraser in Orange Massachusetts