Why was Putin holding the table so hard?
Everything is unraveling. Decades of work dissipating like smoke. He was always in control, the strongest and smartest man in the room.
This is not a picture of a man in control. This is the posture of a man close to losing everything. He was always shoulders back, head held high. Now he looks like someone at the principles office waiting for the punishment.
Putin doesn't have a plan B because at 70 years old there is not enough time for a plan B.
Putin, sharks and gangsters.
Putin's actions are not about national pride or national security.
Putin's actions are about money.
Putin's power comes from his gangster allies, in exchange for money the gangsters support him. The problem is that the gangsters demand a never ending flow of money.
Like sharks they gangsters are constantly moving, constantly hunting for more money.
To remain in power Putin must continually fill the trough with more and more money.
Putin and his sharks act like gangster capitalists.
But now they face the basic law of capitalism. Capital success depended largely on one major factor: constant expansion. The business must constantly grow and profits must constantly increase. Putin must continuously provide more and more money.
Putin is essentially running the world's largest Ponzi scheme.
The rotten Soviet regime has been replaced by a rotten criminal enterprise. Rule of law had collapsed, and the Russian nation increasingly owes any stability it has to a class of organized crime assembled to steal what riches remained.
But the Russians and the Russian economy have been picked bare. A Ponzi scheme requires a constant stream of new victims.
The Ukrainians are the new victims of Putin's Ponzi scheme. Now that the world acts to deny the sharks a new food source the sharks will turn on each other.
The problem with swimming with sharks is that everything is a source of food, even the other sharks.
Putin is on the verge of becoming food for the sharks.
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