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Don’t Kid Yourself: Putin Can’t Be Placated
At this point, it's virtually impossible to suggest the Kremlin's serious about finding its way to a
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Besides, Trump just yells at his enemies and threatens them. Putin feeds his enemies Ricin or has them thrown out of windows. Much more direct kind of guy. Trump hasn’t even fired any of his cabinet yet. While some are long overdue to go, he can’t seem to locate any fools to replace them that won’t criticize him so were stuck with Ice Barbie, Hedgehog the warlord, the new soon to be Baby Momma, Bucky Beaver of the Treasury, and Junior the killer who’s after us all.
China must be happy with the United States and the world distracted by this war, and the other Communist superpower wrapped up in a lose/lose situation that will keep Russia broke for decades. Putin’s Russia looks so hopeless, that China’s current failing pales in significance. And the oligarchs in Russia and Ukraine are prospering. Unless Putin is overthrown, things will not change much.