Anything Putin does will be a con. He doesn't think much of Lenin, but it requires a strenuous exercise of credulity to imagine he would have agreed with Lenin to back down and sign the treaty of Brest-Litovsk as an actual sincere undertaking.
Anything Putin does will be a con. He doesn't think much of Lenin, but it requires a strenuous exercise of credulity to imagine he would have agreed with Lenin to back down and sign the treaty of Brest-Litovsk as an actual sincere undertaking.
True enough, I think. Putin is, among other nefarious things, a skillful con man. (How many successful tyrants throughout history haven't been, to one extent or another?) And as the old saw goes...it's hard to con a con. Hence the very sticky and real problem of how to bare our teeth to this dog in a way that he will ultimately believe without inviting him to call what may be seen as a bluff and an opportunity to go cock his leg someplace else. A place perhaps where there will be no way out for anyone that doesn't victimize everyone.
This rabid mutt needs to be put down. If it weren't for his nuclear bite, it would be much, much easier for all those wishing to do so to act as animal control and get it done. I sure don't envy any of them the decision-making process they are having to engage in at the moment, being burdened with a conscience as they are...definitely a disadvantage when playing for keeps with a mongrel that completely lacks the same.
Anything Putin does will be a con. He doesn't think much of Lenin, but it requires a strenuous exercise of credulity to imagine he would have agreed with Lenin to back down and sign the treaty of Brest-Litovsk as an actual sincere undertaking.
True enough, I think. Putin is, among other nefarious things, a skillful con man. (How many successful tyrants throughout history haven't been, to one extent or another?) And as the old saw goes...it's hard to con a con. Hence the very sticky and real problem of how to bare our teeth to this dog in a way that he will ultimately believe without inviting him to call what may be seen as a bluff and an opportunity to go cock his leg someplace else. A place perhaps where there will be no way out for anyone that doesn't victimize everyone.
This rabid mutt needs to be put down. If it weren't for his nuclear bite, it would be much, much easier for all those wishing to do so to act as animal control and get it done. I sure don't envy any of them the decision-making process they are having to engage in at the moment, being burdened with a conscience as they are...definitely a disadvantage when playing for keeps with a mongrel that completely lacks the same.