Putin Dissidents and Decadence
Vladimir Putin bills himself as a defender of the Russian Orthodox church and an enemy of Western decadence. But his job security requires the demise of his enemies. Russian dissident Alexei Navalny turned up dead on Putin’s watch last week in a gulag north of the Arctic Circle.
Prices in Russia are Low
Putin enemies fall out of windows, crash in airplanes and die of poison at an alarming rate. Add in the casualties from Putin’s Ukraine invasion and life really is cheap.
Judge Protects Deutsche Bank From Trump
Vladimir Putin sends his rivals to The Gulag. Joe Biden sends his to Judge Arthur Engoron.
Musk Tweaks Twitter over Free Speech Abuse
The world’s leading billionaire, Elon Musk, thinks Twitter is a cess pool. So he made a bid to buy the company. He says his motive isn’t about money, it’s about restoring free speech.
Twitter cancelled a lesser billionaire, Donald Trump’s, free speech while he was president of the United States. Trump thinks twitter’s a cess pool too. But his response was to develop his own social media platform called Truth Social. So far his startup is off to a rocky start.
Worried that Trump Less than a Stable Genius
After the March 6 Capitol riot world leaders from China’s military brass to America’s Nancy Pelosi worried that President Trump was less than a stable genius. So General Milley called his Chinese counterpart to assure him he’d let him know if Trump ordered an attack.
The general also said that President Biden rejected his advice to keep a force of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. He didn’t resign but described the withdrawal as a logistical success but a strategic failure.
