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Fool.

"Putin is the world’s most dangerous fool" — NYT 11 May, 2023 Thursday

Putin was convinced that he would easily take over Ukraine, so he had no plan B, making this war one of the most senseless wars of modern times.

This is stated in the article "Vladimir Putin Is the World’s Most Dangerous Fool" by the columnist and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize Thomas Friedman in The New York Times.

Analyzing the course of the war in Ukraine, Friedman comes to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin never had a plan B and he really intended to quickly capture Kyiv and install a puppet government there. Now he has put himself in a situation "where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop."

Lacking a back-up strategy, Putin resorted to the tactics of massive shelling of civilian infrastructure and a prolonged war of attrition to establish control over part of the territories which “he can sell to the Russian people as a great victory," the journalist writes.

"Putin’s Plan B is to disguise that Putin’s Plan A has failed. If this military operation had an honest name, it would be called Operation Save My Face. Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times — a leader destroying another country’s civilian infrastructure until it gives him enough cover to hide the fact that he’s been a towering fool," the article reads.

According to Friedman, the war can end, regardless of whether Russia wins or loses, at the moment when Putin wants it to.

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My congratulations to putinoids of this site: your hero is a fool and you are dolboyobs, as stated. Save for kremleblad_:s - they remain as is.

Totally sorry, it was meant to a different tread.

Sorry, sorry, sorry

What is wrong is that Disney wants to be all inclusive by changing movies and books that had specific characters. And in the process, destroy them. Fiction is fiction. Use some NEW fiction stories. Next Abe will be black and Washington took a steam boat across the river. Where does it end.
Some of the best movies have been picking what was a minor character in a book and making a movie from their perspective.

It doesn't end, never has. Now, Anne Boleyn is Black as well as Cleopatra* and even Tutankhamun. Either in History or fiction, I like to see characters portrayed in their origin or as originally told. The Little Mermaid was a Danish tale, Peter Pan was a boy but portrayed by women (Maude Adams & Mary Martin). Many Native American characters were portrayed by Whites. Even the famous, Charley Chan movies, Chan was portrayed by a Swedish actor instead of a Hawaiian (from original story). The list goes on.

This "Black and White washing" for the sake of "inclusiveness" muddles true history and literature. Some Youtubers are even demonetized for trying to set records straight with indisputable facts.

*I don't know why Cleopatra is so famous. There are so many great Women of Egypt. Hatshepsut was one of the most powerful Pharaohs of Egypt, far beyond what Cleopatra could ever be.

One of my favorite Black heroes from history is Maurice of Thebes, legendary Roman Commander. So great, he was canonized. Would love to see an epic movie about him!