Bringing down the Putin regime to end war in Ukraine peacefully

US political scientist Gene Sharp devoted a lifetime of work, mainly through his Albert Einstein Institute in Boston, to developing a conceptual framework of liberation as well as 198 practical measures, to topple dictatorships and establish democracy through non-violent combat.

His handbooks provided effective guidelines for the various successful colour revolutions.

It is now critical that the Russian masses receive the truth about Putin's atrocities and that the anti-war world expresses its solidarity with the Russian people and encourages them to reclaim their government by "people's power".

There have been a number of non-violent "colour revolutions", from the "Orange Revolution' of 2004-5, which stopped a Kremlin puppet from stealing the election in Ukraine, to Sri Lanka where a massive and lasting people's uprising forced the country's tyrannical president to flee his country.

The outbreak of people-powered pro-democracy revolutions present a real and present danger for remaining dictators such as Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

That is why Xi Jinping announced recently that he is interested in setting up an international security force to try to nip such revolutions in the bud.

But if a peaceful uprising against Putin could succeed in bringing down his regime, this would strengthen the anti-war and anti-tyranny democracy movement all over the world.