Five Days

Next?

 

Lukashenko, above, the sock-puppet leader of Belarus, and joined to Putin's ass by the lips, was either too stupid to notice he's flagged Putin's next moves, or deliberately revealing information/disinformation by showing a sit map showing a Russian thrust from Odessa into Moldova.

Oops? Or on-purpose? Real? or Disinformation?

For the Common Core grads, Moldova is another breakaway former Soviet Republic turned independent country since 1990, and which has been asking for admission to the EU since Russia invaded Ukraine. It sits between Ukraine and Romania, and up until last Thursday, shared zero border with Russia.

This pic is probably giving TPTB in Moldova and most of Western Europe a serious case of Forrest Whitaker eye.

If Putin is actually planning a two-fer move into another formerly free and independent country in Europe, to recreate the Soviet Union he clearly misses, I would expect NATO, having seen this kind of thing in Europe circa 1938, would begin general airstrikes on the entire Russian invasion force in Ukraine, which would be followed by a rather unnatural brightness in cities around the world in short order, unless Putin is granted early retirement at the muzzle of a gun at the next daily briefing.

Putin has screwed himself into a deep hole, and he just looks to keep digging.

If he "wins", Ukrainian resistance and guerrilla war will be endemic for 50 years, unless shortened by Canned Sunshine.

Russia, win or lose, is looking at a return to its global status in 1949, with an economy to match, except with the population of 2022. That means the next famine there doesn't hit Ukraine, it hits all of Russia.

Or, he gets the 9mm pension plan.

There is no scenario where he "wins", even if he conquers Ukraine wholesale, slaughters the leadership, and subjugates a fiercely independent people; and multiple ones where he pulls the entire world down in nuclear flames, starting with his own homeland.

Best case for everyone else still means you'd better start going long on food, fuel and a sturdy fallout bunker on defensible terrain. This summer is going to be bad, and next winter is going to be long and cold for a lot of people.

And we still have a doddering incompetent left holding the levers here, and he's not getting any better over time. But at least he assured us tonight, that he stands with the Iranian people.

Potayto, Potahto. IQ of 80 on his best day, and his best days are 30 years behind him, and receding into the distance by the minute. We're probably lucky he wore his underwear on the inside tonight, and didn't put his shoes and socks on in that order.