Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

[Black Aeronaut]

--Putin may not all be there. Every photo of him is massively distanced from his staff. He's berating generals in public. Covid has not been kind to him.

How the mighty have fallen.  When my ship was in Vladivostok, the people there thought of him as a great hero.  I can only imagine what they're thinking of him now.

This is weirdly fucked in the way the Cold War never was.

This is like satire-turned-real-life.  It almost feels like Putin was expecting this to go over like the first ten minutes of Red Dawn.  Instead of his Army viciously attacking civilians in the streets, they sit around twiddling their thumbs while cursing their existence and their logistical organs.