Month: March 2022

I’m depressed. For days now I’ve been reading about and watching the awful, inhumane attack on Ukraine. The photos increasingly have become more graphic in portraying the needless suffering, killing and destruction unleashed on the Ukrainian people. As pundits have observed, it’s 1939 all over again, the world caught in the grip of a madman…

Given their disparate origins and experiences, it is more than a coincidence that Messrs. Putin and Trump are friends and fellow travelers. Putin, the former KGB operative, and Trump, the celebrity schmoozer and former real estate tycoon, are both ruthless, amoral and used to getting their way. Both have connived their way on to the…