Maybe now we know why the senile old grifter who was humiliated on national TV back in June was seen on TV beaming with bonhomie at last week's sit-down with incoming president Trump, who humiliated him on national TV. Maybe he - the senile old grifter, that is - knows that Trump will not be incoming. On account of what may be incoming any day now.

From Russia.

The people wanting a real war with Russia are doing everything they can to start it. They have provided weapons - missiles - to the dictator of Ukraine (accuracy is important; Zelensky cancelled elections and so is a "president" in the same way that Idi Amin was one) and have all-but-actually fired those missiles themselves, leaving the actual button-pushing to token Ukrainians for appearances sake.

Those missiles have now been fired into Russia, which by definition constitutes an act of war. Russia now has every legal (under international law) and moral right to defend itself against these attacks, just the same as the United States would if it were subjected to missile barrages fired by Russian proxies that everyone knows are Russian proxies. The fig leaf that it isn't Russians- or Ukrainians - actually pushing the button is just that.

No one's buying it.

The question at hand now is whether the Russians will respond to it.

More finely, will he?

Vladimir Putin is many things but an imbecile he is not. He surely - hopefully - understands that the people wanting him to push the button are desperate for the real war he has been carefully avoiding for the past four years because they will no longer be in a position to goad him into pushing the button in about six weeks from now. That is how long Putin must be patient in the face of provocations that would ordinarily require an immediate response.

No serious leader of a serious country can afford to allow another country to attack his country without responding. This is no doubt what the maniacs (and imbeciles) still in control of this country are counting on that by giving the "green light" to the dictator of Ukraine to launch American-made, American-provided and American-guided missiles into Russia. This happened just yesterday. It is nothing shy of a miracle there is still a today.

Missiles fired into Russia from Keeeeeeeeeeevvvv could be nuclear missiles. How could Putin be sure they aren't? Is it on Putin to assume they aren't - and allow his country to be attacked by missiles that could be nuclear? How about those F-16 fighters that are draped in Keeeeevian colors but very possibly flown by American or NATO pilots? These F-16s are reportedly fitted-out to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Whether they are actually carrying them is anyone's guess. Or rather, it is up to Putin to guess.

You begin perhaps to see the danger.

Luckily - for the world - the evidence of the past four years suggests Putin is not the imbecile the people trying to goad him into pushing the button are. His reticence to go to war even when he has cause is remarkable. This strongly suggests he does not want to go to war and that strongly suggests he is not a psychopath. As a contra case-in-point, do you suppose Stalin would have not pushed the button if America (via obvious proxy) shot missiles at Moscow?

Stalin was no imbecile, either. But he was a psychopath. One of those creatures willing to burn the world down if he felt he was going down.

Putin - so far - does not seem to be such a creature. And thank God for that.

We may just avoid a real war if he can remain patient for about another six weeks or so. If the psychopaths-in-charge are unable to overcome his patience. The worry, of course, is that they just might escalate - for exactly that reason.

Or - rather - for the necessity. A real war may be the only way, at this point, of preserving their hold on power. A real war could even provide the pretext they will use to remain in power.

There is nothing like a war to justify the suspension of elections - and if inaugurations.

Just ask the dictator of Ukraine.
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