Mike Luckovich for March 01, 2022

The trolls will never understand this cartoon; way too much reality.

I hope it works that way… and soon enough to minimize the bloodshed and the insane costs that Putin has put in process.

Putin has badly underestimated the Ukrainian resolve, the world reaction and has launched his own Bay of Pigs that is blowing up in his face. He wanted to weaken NATO and the European Union? He has made them more united than ever.

The Ukrainians are locked, loaded and ready for guerrilla street insurgency if their cities should fall, and in any cities that fall, the insurgency will make Afghanistan look like a picnic.

The Russian people are protesting in the streets by the hundreds of thousands. They can’t arrest everyone in Russia. People are lining up at ATMs that are running out of rubles, which have become worthless in any case. Even some of the OILigarchs are calling on Putin to stop the madness.

Even Switzerland — home of secret offshore tax shelters where all secrets are guarded — is freezing the “rainy day fund” Putin had squirreled away there.

Kyiv and other cities may very well officially fall, but Putin’s army will bleed a slow death in the streets of Ukraine, with no money for replacement arms, fuel or sustenance.

The whole world is against Putin. Well, except for the American extremist far right. Marjorrhea Traitor Greene was introduced at an event by neo-Nazi who noted that people were comparing Putin to Hitler, and ended with, “…as if that’s a bad thing.”

Putin is going to try to do as much damage as he can before it’s over.

Oh, Mike, you’re forgetting the various groups of Russians who see no point and are paying a price dog.

Wag the dog.

Not yet I think Mike’s a bit too optimistic that Russia will heed (get it like a dog)

SIC ’EM, BOYS!!!

Not sure Putin is as down as the media is currently portraying. I fear Russia really unleashing its might (and I’m not even talking nukes).

patrick murphy, loony squiggles, montana bill, rikitikiDA, klemubermoron, ammosexuallydysfunctional, opspecialed, you need to do something about the treatment of your rat king……………………….right-wing populists say what?:

Putin looks more like an idiot than a genius.

At least Putin was responsible and neutered Trumpie.

Well said, AND well true.

The orange dog is gone, hooray !

Kyiv is the Ukrainian spelling.

Kiev is the now antiquated Russian version

Does Dementia Joe even know there’s a war going on?

There are a lot more dogs in that pack!

Luckovich nails it!

Joe doesn`t care about dead civilians in Ukraine. He only cares about climate change. He doesn`t care that the price of gas in the US is skyrocketing. Inflation is soaring and he blames climate change. The SOU address tonight will be all about climate change. He as well as Putin are mentally challenged.

Funny so the guy that screwed Putin oil revenue and armed ukraine is the lap dog, and the guy poking the bear and the 2 dogs that ignore the bear, disarmed Eastern Europe and funded Putin war chest are the good dogs? Okie

Marjorrhea Traitor Greene…great play on words befitting her

Putin won’t stop until Kyiv looks like Grozny did in 2000.

Look: Putin has so MUCH blood on his hands already that the schools and hospitals his minions are bombing and strafing are—so far at least—only a tiny fraction of his lifetime total. (Obviously, his attacking civilians is contemptible—as is his illegal invasion itself—but it is perfectly in his lack-of-character.) He helped his fellow dictator and war criminal, Assad, massacre more than half a million Syrian civilians. Let’s say that Putin’s share of the slaughter was only 10% (no knowledgeable observer thinks it is that low). In other words, even before his illegal invasion of Ukraine, Putin was responsible for more than 50,000 murders. Anybody who can praise Putin is, quite simply, sick—and, of course, a traitor.

I see the dishonest cowardly imbecile Traitor Trump Cult trolls are at it again. Ignore them, and they will be forgotten but not gone.

Either panel of this cartoon could stand alone. Together, they’re a force multiplier.

I’m hoping it’s true. I’m not sure.

I’ve always heard “a bit dog yaps the loudest.” I offer that (with some amusement) to opspecial and MB, supra.

Too late I’m afraid.

Turns out that Putin is a sloppy chess player.

I second DDWiz comments about the invasion of Ukraine,it will be a bad invasion for Putin.

this dicktator is scaring the hell out of me talking about using nucs on Ukraine,now Im convinced he is a stalin with nucs

I wouldn’t waste a lot of time responding to АпСпэшал (that’s “OpSpecial” in its native Cyrillic). Especially don’t reply to any original comments from it, because that just enhances its chances of becoming the day’s featured comment, where it’ll be the ONLY one that 99% of the readers of this strip ever see.

How many times in the last decade do you suppose these words have been spoken within the Kremlin: “I do not know, Comrade Vladimir, that does not seem like good idea.”?

Surround yourself with nothing but yes-men and you soon drift off into the world where you believe you can do no wrong, because “never is heard a discouraging word”.

Bingo was named

Oh, I hope that is not a retriever! Retrievers are intelligent and loyal, everything that Drumpf is NOT!

Putin didn’t do anything when Trump was President. Had to wait for Biden who, with Obama, stood by during the annexation of Crimea. He knew Biden would stand by. NO sanctions until invasion instead of imposing sanctions in March 2021 when 70,000 troops were moved to the border. Questionable if Germany would have been on board at that time though.

Putin underestimated the resolve of the Ukrainian people and Biden finally had to act. So happy for the worldwide condemnation, but it should have been nullified in 3/2021 before any troop escalations.