Putin's Plagues

Sinister Putin’s run of luck has all but run out. The greatest world player since Charlemagne the Great is seeing to that. American President Donald J. Trump is demonstrating a combination of skill, diplomacy and massive power the likes of which hasn’t been seen in modern times. No one can keep up, least of all little old Vladimir. 

This is like an AI mixtape of the best of the Roosevelts, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, about a 2025 POTUS who’s better than all of them in terms of strategy, presentation, prosecution and execution. Now add statesmanship to that list after Monday’s historic White House meeting of European heads of state, all dutifully sitting before POTUS.

The nonverbal dynamics alone from these meetings are priceless, including little Vlad buckling his knees when saying his goodbyes to the Big Don in Alaska, and the big eye-rolls from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House. More please!

Putin’s Plagues 

Indeed, Trump has hit Putin with a series of plagues against his despotic designs. Let's review them.

1. NATO is now a monster. Trump took NATO from a puny sub-2% GDP budget to a huge 5% GDP budget, pretty much all of those Pounds and Euros spent with American defense companies. This created a double gut punch for Putin because he now has a vastly more powerful opponent in Europe, and America booms from the European purchases.

2. The EU now pays for all Ukrainian support. The American taxpayer is finally off the hook. Thank you President Trump! As with the NATO budget, America mints money selling that support.

3. Javelins go boom. President Trump gave Ukraine Javelin tank killers in one of the last acts of his first term, this after dipshit Obama only gave them blankets and survival food. Ukraine used Trump’s Javelins to take out the vaunted Russian tank column headed for Kiev early in the war. 

4. The little Russian President kowtowed to the huge American President on former Russian land last Friday in Alaska. The was a Super Bowl scale flex. The little Russian had to walk solo from his puny plane to Air Force One, flanked by parked F-22 Raptors. Then came a perfectly timed flyover from the most powerful and impregnable warbirds the world over: the B-2 & F-35s. The message was that the USAF can take out Russian strategic assets just like we did to Putin’s beleaguered ally in Iran.

   
   

   President Trump stood tall and unmoved in front of the magnificent Air Force One. Putin came right to Trump, extended a puny hand, which Big Don pulled into him. Dominance established, they walked together to the Beast, another example of American superiority.

5. Europe is united behind American leadership. Gorbachev was the last Moscow mule who had to deal with a strong American President leading a unified Europe. Arguably, President Trump has whipped Europe into shape at a greater level than did President Reagan & Prime Minister Thatcher. Putin is considering the points above and realizing he’s got a crap hand, even before the Head of NATO and Prime Ministers from Britain, Italy, France, Germany and Finland sat before President Trump at the Resolute Desk on Monday.

6. Trump Time is now for both Europe and Putin. We know the literally incredible pace at which Donald J. Trump drives. Friends and foes alike can't keep up. Putin, old and unwell, may crack under the pressure. Many have: Hillary, Kamala, Biden, Little Rocket Man, the Ayatollah, Al Bagdadi. 

7. Trump destroyed Putin's satrap in Syria. First, USAF General Raising Caine killed the "little green men", aka Russian special forces. The Syrian nepo-baby dictator, Assad, fled to Moscow sometime thereafter. Result: Russia's influence in the Levant is now nil, highlighted by its evacuation of all Russian Navy vessels from its prized Mediterranean base at Tartus. Now, the Russian Navy only has a single warm water port left — in Crimea. It'd be a shame if Italy, Britain, Germany, and France gave Ukraine the weapons to destroy that also. The Russian Navy would never recover.

8. American Energy Dominance is rapidly returning. Russia can’t compete, notwithstanding that energy is Russia's most important industry. Bankruptcy looms.

9. Russia is almost certain to get hit with further strategic losses. Red Tagging India and/or China for buying Russian oil will be a death blow to the Russian economy.

10. Trump may make Putin a deal he can't refuse. It will start with POTUS handing the Russian a picture of Putin’s Pleasure Palace on the Black Sea — with a bulls-eye on the front door. "Great place you got there, Vlad. Pity if something happened to it."

    
    
    
    

    

    Putin's Pleasure Palace in Sochi on the Black Sea

Pharaoh, meet Badass Moses

Pharaoh Putin brought a series of plagues onto Russia, with the first eight already occurring. Will he capitulate before the plagues from Badass Moses reach nine, let alone ten? A billion-dollar Pleasure Palace hangs in the balance, not to mention an end to the war in Ukraine.