Yet Perversely/Ironically Enough, There's Really Only One Person (Other Than Putin Himself) With the Ability - Somehow Or Other - to Speak to the Mind of the Russian President and Get Him to Desist and Back Down (From His Military Escapade & Nuclear Brinkmanship): Believe It or Not, Folks, It's Donald J Trump...Yes, I'm Being - Deadly - Serious!

Just as only he - as U S President - was able to do so then with both Putin & Kim Jong-En(sp?) of North Korea...

Yes, weird (if not wonderful) as it sounds, they're on the selfsame wavelength, so to speak...they speak the same (despotic), incoherent language, and can (intuitively) pick each others' brains (if they can find anything there)...

But more importantly by a long shot, he probably wouldn't seriously listen to pretty much anyone else...

Yet As We NOW All Know (If We Somehow Didn't Already/Previously) Putin Has Always Had An Extra Weapon In His Arsenal - A Special Trump Card (No Pun Intended) Up His Back Pocket, the Nuclear Option...God Help Us All!

Hurrah to Russian Doctors - & Military Leaders/Political Figures Et Al, and Russians Throughout the Land - Appealing (At Doubtless Great Personal Cost) to President Putin to End This Wretched Military Escapade...to Kazakhstan for Refusing Russia Military Equipment &/Or Airbases... & to Governments Here & There for Closing Off/Shutting Down Financial Safety Nets/Loopholes for Russian Oligarchs...But First & Foremost to the Ukrainian People As a Whole...for Rising Up As One (Wo)Man and Letting the World, the Russian Military & In Particular Vladimir Putin Know - In No Mealy-Mouthed Fashion & Uncertain Terms - That They Will Not Let Him Achieve His Grisly Object...& That Even If It Cost Each One of Them Their Earthly Lives...

For as Someone is reported to have once declared:

(S)he who saves her/his [earthly] life will [ultimately] lose it, and s/he who loses her/his [earthly] life will [ultimately] save it. 

This is [true] love, that one lay/s down his life for his friends.

Or as another person once said: truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne...

Yet that scaffold holds/sways the future, and beyond the dim unknown, God standeth behind the shadows,[still] keeping watch over his own...

But Trump Simply Can't Help Himself, Though This Time He's Overplayed His Hand - & His True Nature is Openly On Display For One & All to See

Accordingly if any otherwise decent and sane Americans - erstwhile supporting Donald J Trump - wanted any remaining reason why he is completely unfit to ever resume presidential duties (as of late 2024/early 2025 in particular) then they need look no further than his latest series of Putin plaudits over recent days apparently...

What an utter obscenity and disgrace.

Yes, DJT's plumbed new depths of depravity - and for him that's saying something!

Hey, now at last may true evangelicals throughout the United States of America come out en masse and formally renounce their idolatrous and sacreligious alliance with this extremely unpleasant individual...

...before it's forever too late...before God decides your idolatrous identification with him prevents you from being fit and proper representatives of His 'down here below' and so identifies you with him that in ultimately dealing with and to Trump He has no alternative but to deal with you in like manner...

For if we refuse to separate ourselves from sin, then we become intrinsically identified with it and in ultimately dealing with it and destroying it God has no alternative but to destroy us alongside it!

Bravo to the Many/Numerous Gutsy Russians Coming to the Fore At This Dire Juncture to Let Putin Know They Ain't Fooled One Whit: Believe it or Not, There Remain True Russian Patriots Not Under Putin's Thumb, Though Forthwith They'll be Summarily Frogmarched Off to Prison If Not Siberia...

600 or 6,000-odd people across 62 Russian cities apparently...

Postscript:

For the inside story on the person who helped Putin become one of the most powerful people on the planet, you could do worse - in my own humble opinion - than view/read my four (or so) successive blogposts on my original nuff said blogsite, c/o

http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/).

Seriously, folk, they're worth a read - if I do say so myself... 

Yes Indeed, Now Be Very Afraid, Taiwan...Mainland China Will Doubtless Utilize This Crisis As a Unique Opportunity, As an All Too Convenient Distraction for Achieving Its Own Nefarious Purposes in the Asia-Pacific Region...& Learn Ukraine's (and Indeed Hong Kong's) Lesson (Fast): In Your Moment of Ultimate Extremity, the West Will Not Come to Your Aid (Anytime Soon)

But what ought it to do...start WW111? 

Hifaluting Western Protestations Nothing More Nor Less than a Paper Tiger (with the Possible Exception of the Aussies): In a Turn of the Bitterest Irony. the Nation Earnestly Desiring NATO Membership and Encouraged by One & All Along That Selfsame Path for So Very Long...Will, In Its Moment of Direst Need, Receive NO HELP WHATSOEVER From That Very Organisation (and Its Major Component Parts)

'So 'don't put your trust in fancy promises'.

See 'the Cunning Cat & His Company' (in Aesop's Fables, Golden Press/Western publishing, 1965). 

Or as *Aesop again might characterize it, a friend in need is a friend in deed.

See 'The Travellers and the Bear' (ibid).

Also, actions speak louder than words.

Again, see 'The Lions and the Hares', ibid.

Volodymyr Versus Vladimir: What a Study in Contrasts!

The diminutive, modest and self-effacing, courageous would-be martyr, Volodymyr Zelensky, versus the cowardly, self-worshipping, wannabe 'real man' Vladimir Putin!

Vladimir Putin? You Can't Negotiate with a Thug and a Gangster and a Schoolyard Bully

 Or, 'A bad excuse is good enough for a bully'. 

See 'The Hungry Wolf and the Lamb', Aesop's Fables, 1965 edition).

Alternatively, 'Some people believe that might makes right'. 

Likewise, see 'The Lion's share', ibid.

The Leopard, Folks, Ain't About to Change His Spots Anytime Soon: Once a KGB Agent (Provocateur), Ever & Always a KGB Agent (Provocateur)

We can change everything except our nature.

See 'Venus and the Lovesick Cat' (Aesop's Fables, 1965 edition). 

Vladimir Putin? He Ain't a Clone, Folks - More's the Pity

Or, alternatively, a 'puppet'? Only of his own narcissistic, delusionary, messianic self-talk. 

The Book/Film 'Yoyo Rabbit'? Sorry (to Disillusion Y'all), Adolf Hitler Was No Laughing Matter: Not Now, Not Ever

'Othering' Others, In Particular Small & Unpopular Minorities, Has Ever Had a Rather Fraught & Tragic History...And So, Perhaps Y'All Had Better Take Your Covid Mandates & Go & Stick Them Somewhere Where the Sun Never Shines - For All Our Sakes Ultimately...

They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I wasn't a Jew...

Then they came for the mentally infirm and I said nothing because I wasn't mentally infirm...

Then they came for the sick and decrepit and I said nothing because I wasn't sick and decrepit...

Then they came for the Gypsies and I said nothing because I wasn't a Gypsy...

Then they came for the communists and socialists and I said nothing because I was neither a communist nor a socialist...

And finally they came for you and me but there wasn't anyone left to speak out and up for us...

Postscript:

Admittedly I'd concede a rather imprecise rendition of that famous, memorable sentiment (but best available recollection for the present).

Are Hungary and Poland -'Illiberal Democracies' That the European Union and Court of Justice Argue They Most Definitely Are (Notwithstanding) - Nevertheless Correct in Asserting These (EU Etcetera) Have Not Only Exceeded Their Just Mandate and Authority, But Their Recent (Re-)Actions Against These Two Sovereign Nations Represent a 'Cultural Creep' Towards a (Re-)United States of Europe? You Better Believe It!

Two Prominent Jesuits (Emmanuel Macron & Pope Frances): Leaders of a New, Reunited Europe? Hey, Even the BBC Itself Suggested Macron Fitted the Bill

I'm Hardly Seeking to Justify Putin Et Al - Leastways in Sync With The Chinese Dragon - But (I'm) Sorry to Say, (U S President) Joe (Biden) Is - Quite Simply - In, Out of His Depth, Over His Head...And Who Knows What Soon Befalls Our Troubled World, Let Alone the Much-Abused Nation-State of the Ukraine...

 To Be Continued...