Putin the Pugnacious, ISIS the Insufferable

RUSSIAN BIG BOSS Vladimir Putin is again doing his impersonation of a tough guy (remember the shirtless pics?). Putin, the one who intends to reconstitute the old Soviet Union empire. A compressed spring will eventually return to its uncompressed state, he glibly said, meaning, the empire shall return. Hence, the Crimea. Next? The Ukraine! He now accuses the United states and Saudi Arabia of conspiring to keep global oil prices down, to ruin the Russian economy. As if the United States and Saudi Arabia could ever agree on anything, much less a joint conspiracy. as if they would be willing to wreck their own economies to wreck Putin's. As usual, Putin's estimate of his own importance is way high. The Russian have always been pretty good at wrecking their own economy, Why would anyone want to interfere? Putin the paranoid also claims that there is a legion of foreign spies in his country, working to destabilize the Russian currency. Again, why bother? Putin the Pretext, looking for reasons to start a war. If only the Coke Brothers would finance an early Putinic retirement. Of course, the Coke brothers might prefer having Putin in power............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Is is too late to stop the Islamic State from existing, or should the U.S. and the world concede its existence, and move towards diplomatic intercourse? the American Air Force is dropping tons of bombs, daily, on I.S., and has already killed an estimated one thousand people, perhaps fifty collateral civilians. Not bad, but will it be enough. And if not, what will be? ISIS came into existence no more nefariously than many other a fine, widely recognized nation, the United States included.