MadVlad Episode X

A busted Flush

Obviously, without much in the way of forethought, MadVlad has decided he can get away with whatever policies he decides to pursue.  He seems to have set out to ride roughshod over the sensibilities and reservations of his peers across the rest of the World. He doesn’t appear to be concerned by reaction to his foreign policy and any ramifications which might arise from it. Could it be the macho bareback riding antics splattered across ‘Red-top’ tabloids across the Globe, has convinced him, he can do no wrong.

Now he’s launching a fight back as it becomes obvious to Russia and his people at large that he’s overstepped the mark. Sometime soon he’ll ‘Reap the Whirlwind of universal disapprobation, from all but a few of his closest acolytes, dependent on him for longevity and continuum, as he instructs Pravda to proclaim his popularity. Will it wash in the face of discontent across the wider Russian Continent as support for his policies wanes in the face all the nonsense he’s perpetrated with misguided policies. It’s no good Vlad trying to say sanctions are not biting and capital flight is irrelevant. For he soon backed-off from baling out Greece, in the face of dubious Russian economic prospects.

Now he’s stepped up to the rostrum, accusing Western Powers of trying to damage his country, while trying to deny the current economic situation is in any way revenge for the annexation of Crimea.  Speaking defiantly and confidently, he tries to evoke the image he wants others to adopt. In Western terms it could be said he’s attempting to promote himself as his own ‘Spin- Doctor’ by slanting the way outsiders view his antics. Then he comes up with an analogy, which smacks of an Eric Cantona Press Conference.

 With signs that all is not well with him, and suffering the discomfort of a heavy chill, Vlad went-on to proclaim: “Maybe the Bear should sit back and relax. Not chase piglets and swine across the forest to snack on berries and honey. Then maybe they’ll leave him in peace.”  But will we and can we? Maybe we’re always going to want to cage the Bear, for he’s at his most dangerous - when cornered.

Maybe he does need to be caged with his teeth ripped out and his claws blunted. The nuclear deterrent defenestrated for want of a better analogy, so we can make it a better world as the Bear is done for. Sooner or later and we hope it will be sooner, economics will kick-in as they did for the Soviet Union and once again the pragmatists will reign supreme and Russia will have no need to try and provoke another Cold War with Iron Curtains and the like.

It’s time the Sovereign States of World tried living in harmony, without trying to impose ideologies they espouse on others - who want no part of it. Maybe there will always be people loose in the world that think and feel, they know what’s better for us - than we ourselves do. But insofar as they confine all this to their national borders and abide by majority’ decisions from their own people, who in their right senses across the Globe - can disagree?  

Watch this space, I’ll be back.

Daz.