Czar Putin

There’s the Vladimir Putin who patted President Barack Obama on the back, and who wrapped a shawl around the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping to protect her from the cold.
And then there’s the Putin who greeted his hosts at this weekend’s summit of global leaders in Brisbane by parking warships off the Australian coast. This after his air force announced bomber sorties as far as the Gulf of Mexico and Russian troops entered Ukraine, according to NATO.
With his updated brand of Cold War diplomacy, Putin kept himself in the spotlight at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing and probably will do the same at the Group of 20 meeting starting Nov. 15. The attention doesn’t change his Achilles heel: the Russian economy, hit by sanctions over Ukraine, falling oil prices and a tanking currency.
“Putin is still a class act, able to charm and intimidate by turns -- but ultimately to keep others guessing about his intentions,” said Euan Somerled Graham, senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. “Yet it actually says more about Russia’s weaknesses than strength that the former KGB colonel has atavised into a czar.”

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Charmer and Brute: Close Encounters With the Two Putins

I agree that Putin is actually moving from weakness not strength. However, Putin is not a diplomat but a warrior with enough nuclear weapons to end all life on earth and the earth itself. Anyone who has this is not weak in any classical sense but only weak in an economic sense. He holds the power to kill every living thing on earth and isn't afraid at all to do this. This people should actually be thinking about more. 

The Classical historical problem that most people aren't seeing here:

Putin could blackmail and is already blackmailing the world. He could ask for every dollar or ruble on earth and say, "If you don't give me every dollar I will nuke all your big cities.": To any country or countries on earth. And he could follow through with this if people didn't pay him. Who is going to stop him? Think about this for a moment. He's holding all the cards people. Think about this.

The alternative to giving him what he wanted would be worldwide extinction. He knows this. Do you? This is why he is so confident. He knows this.

Putin is ISIL on a worldwide scale. He could any day nuke ISIL out of existence. But, ISIL couldn't nuke Putin out of existence, could they?

And by the way while Putin and ISIL are farting around what happens to Ebola worldwide? Depopulation?