When
I saw a close up of Putin on TV during the Sochi games as he sat high
above the arena surveying his kingdom, I got a real queasy feeling. This
was the look of a cunningly dangerous and profoundly calculating
character disorder. And now that he has awarded
a medal of honor to the chief suspect in the murder of former Russian
security agent Alexander Litvinenko for "services to the fatherland", we
all need to realize that he just "spit squarely into our left eye" in a
very orderly and precise public manner. Following on the heels of the
murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was about to
publicly reveal the existence of thousands of Russian conscripts in the
Ukraine, Putin proves himself to be in the vanguard of rogues who rule
by fear and intimidation.
Note:
The notion that Chechens murdered Nemtsov is absurd. Read about the
conflict between Chechnya and Russia. This is a classic KGB "twofer"
that also simultaneously shields Putin's henchmen. Though this may seem
like a brilliant strategy to those on the inside, it merely further
discredits Putin and makes his oligarch allies even more fearful of him.
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