Throw us a bone, right? Just in time to make Donald Trump look like a Boy Wonder, a dealmaker par excellence? Release a political prisoner two weeks before the midterms, interject the possibility of peace talks—sans Zelenskyy—two weeks before the midterms, and so on…
The mind-numbing thing is that it might work among the 30-percenters who think Donald is a prophet sent from God. But for the rest of us? We’ve long tired of Vladimir Putin and his bloody trip down memory lane, using his own people as ammunition and Trump as his whipping boy, living in some Soviet-era dream world that would turn back the clocks and simply make him happy.
Where do people like Putin come from? He is an anachronistic boil on the world’s ass.
