The Donbas Dumbass

That would be this guy.

Vladimir Putin held sham referenda in Russian-occupied oblasts, or regions, of Ukraine in which the vote to join the Russian Federation was 103 percent - 105 percent in some areas! Then, after Putin welcomed the regions into Russia - including the Donetsk Oblast - the Ukrainian army liberated Lyman, a key city in Donetsk.  

And the Ukrainian flag flies over the city once again!

Awk-ward!

Putin has promised that any attempt by the West to help Ukraine take back the four oblasts will lead to nuclear war.

Oh, I see - he threatens to unleash the sort of power that would wipe out cities in some of our most heavily populated areas?

Someone tell Putin that Hurricane Ian already did that in Florida! 

I'm sorry, I take my humor like my coffee - black. 

No sugar.

Putin His Money Where His Mouth Is

 We're on step closer to a global war because of this nut.

Vladimir Putin declared the Russia recognizes Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics and sent Russian troops into the two Ukrainian provinces to protect them from . . . Ukraine.  He has also  authorized a military operation in Ukraine, insisting that Donetskian and Luhanskian territorial claims extend into areas of Ukraine that would justify Russian expansion into the country.

Oh yeah, there's more.  Putin says that there is no real Ukrainian state or nationality - it was a fiction created by Lenin at the dawn of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, even though evidence of a Ukrainian nation goes back centuries, and the current lands within Ukrainian borders have historically been dominated by the Ukrainian people - a claim once disputed by Adolf Hitler, who insisted that the Germanic people originated in that area and so Ukraine was historically part of Germany.  Now Putin is saying that Ukrainians are in fact Russians.  The incoherence of this belief is best explained in this article.

President Biden has imposed severe sanctions on Russian oligarchs, while Germany has suspended the Russo-German gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea.  And now that it appears a war has in fact begun - explosions have been reported in Kiev  . . . Western leaders, including Biden, are now asking us to prepare for austerity . . . and Russian cyberattacks.  

At this point, it doesn't seem to matter when the pandemic will end.

The 2020s are shaping up to be the worst decade of human history.