The speech that predicted the nightmare! This is Boris Nemtsov speaking in 2014—right after the "little green men" showed up in Crimea but years before the full-scale madness we’re seeing now. Nemtsov was one of the few who had the guts to call it exactly what it was from day one: a cynical, desperate power grab by a man who would rather burn both countries down than give up his seat. He wasn't just "anti-war". He was a patriot who realised that putin’s obsession with Ukraine would eventually turn Russia into a pariah and bring nothing but coffins back to Russian mothers. The most haunting part? He delivered this at the "March of Peace" in Moscow. Less than a year later, he was gunned down on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, literally in the shadow of the Kremlin. They silenced him because he was right, and because he wasn't afraid to say that the "madness" wouldn't stop at the border. If you want to understand how we got to this point, you have to read what Boris was screaming from the rooftops back when the world was still trying to "reason" with the Russian dictator. Boris Nemtsov: "What will this putin end up with, tell me! What will he get? He’s going to get Ukraine as an enemy! All the way, people ask me: 'Why did you come to this march, the march of peace and freedom? Why?' I say, 'Because I'm a patriot of the country, because I'm against the war. I don't want cargo-200 to come here in Moscow, in Yaroslavl, in Nizhny Novgorod. That our mothers, our wives and children cry—I don't want that. I believe we have no right to behave this way in relation to a friendly country. This is meanness, this is impudence, and most importantly, this is to the detriment of Russia. I've been thinking for a long time about what arguments putin has to behave in such a way, any arguments at all. The simplest answer is: he is a sick man. He is a very mentally ill man. The Serbsky Institute, Kaschenko, doctors, orderlies, injections from morning till night—that’s what he needs. And then I thought: no, he’s not just a sick man. He is also a cynical and despicable man. He wants, using this operation to occupy and annex Crimea, he wants to rule us forever. We have to say no to war. We must say 'no more' to madness. We must say, 'Russia and Ukraine without putin! Russia and Ukraine without putin. And lastly: Glory to Russia! Glory to Ukraine! Russia will be free! Thank you very much!" Nemtsov was a former Deputy Prime Minister turned opposition leader. His assassination on February 27, 2015, remains one of the most high-profile political killings in modern Russian history. This speech is the moment he became "too dangerous" for putin to ignore.