So if Putin somehow manages to disappear into the ether, who takes over? Lavrov? Vladimir hasn’t exactly groomed an heir apparent.
Biden stating his personal opinion, which we all share, that Putin should not be in power anymore, was nice to hear. He sounded like an actual human being with a visceral dislike of a bloody, dictatorial butcher. And while it was clarified that he was not stating that we should send Seal Team 6 to put him out of our misery (that would be more Lindsey Graham’s speed), he hasn’t exactly totally disowned it. Good. Yet it is possible to sound tough without intimating that you’d bomb Moscow (goodbye Trump Tower Moscow).
If Zelenskyy signs a peace treaty of any sort with Putin, perhaps it should contain a clause reassuring him that Ukraine would not wage a peremptory strike on Russia in the future.
So if Putin somehow manages to disappear into the ether, who takes over? Lavrov? Vladimir hasn’t exactly groomed an heir apparent.
Biden stating his personal opinion, which we all share, that Putin should not be in power anymore, was nice to hear. He sounded like an actual human being with a visceral dislike of a bloody, dictatorial butcher. And while it was clarified that he was not stating that we should send Seal Team 6 to put him out of our misery (that would be more Lindsey Graham’s speed), he hasn’t exactly totally disowned it. Good. Yet it is possible to sound tough without intimating that you’d bomb Moscow (goodbye Trump Tower Moscow).
If Zelenskyy signs a peace treaty of any sort with Putin, perhaps it should contain a clause reassuring him that Ukraine would not wage a peremptory strike on Russia in the future.