> Characterising your enemy as a mad fool is a standard propaganda technique I don’t know about a mad fool. But I think it is pretty clear that the invasion o

> Characterising your enemy as a mad fool is a standard propaganda technique I don’t know about a mad fool. But I think it is pretty clear that the invasion of Ukraine is a bit of catastrophic buffoonery on par with the US invasion of Iraq by Bush jr and his neocon cronies. If the past is prelude to the present we can predict that Putin’s political coalition is going to be thrown out, in a manner similar to what we saw in the 2016 US presidential primaries / election, which was more a rejection and overthrow of the political establishment than an endorsement of the orange Cheeto man.