Vladimir Putin Comparing Himself To Peter The Great Is Yet Another Evidence of His Spectacular Unravelling
And one hopes that the Russian people will act before it is too late
It has been well over one hundred days since the Ukrainian invasion began and there is no clear victor.
Both sides have accumulated great numbers of casualties and the digits are rising with every passing day.
That said, the Russian ministry of propaganda is working overtime to show that Russia is winning the war.
According to Putin’s useful idiots, we are told that Russia has captured vast swathes of what used to be theirs and they are on their way to taking over the entirety of Ukraine.
Given the caliber of Russian soldiers who have died on Ukrainian soil since February, any kind of victory that Russia achieves at this stage will be the Pyrrhic sort; one that will inevitably lead to much greater harm in the near future.
But try telling that to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Our man knows that he has gone past the point of no return but is still insistent on peddling the same BS in the hope that it will give him traction with his people.
This time, the strongman isn’t leaning on players from Russia’s recent past such as…