Robert Ariail for November 01, 2022

Its a mirage just like munchkin land

There never was anything behind Putin’s facade. He is, like most “Authoritarians” (like his butt-buddy, Trump) a strictly a one-dimensional character – there is LITERALLY no “there” there! All of his policies are empty facades and his victories – hollow.

Death is the one absolute available to all his followers and supporters.

Unfortunately, because of oil revenue, a military industrial complex, and a secret service has no ethical boundaries, that “village” will have an oversized influence in a world that is hooked to petroleum.

Just in case you need the nudge, look up “Potemkin Village”

“Now if you load your rifle right

And if you fix your bayonet so

And if you kill that man my friend

The one we call the foe

And if you do it often lad

And if you do it right

You’ll be a hero overnight

You’ll save your country from her plight

Remember God is always right

If you survive to see the sight

A friend now greeting foe

No you won’t believe in If anymore

It’s an illusion" (Roger Whittaker)

Apropos of this, Grigory Potemkin’s bones have been disinterred from his final resting place in Kherson, Ukraine and are apparently being taken to Moscow. Since the whole “special operation” has been a particularly brutal sort of Potemkin Village of a war, conducted in the same territory where the phrase “Potemkin Village” was born, it’s almost too apt that the Russians have apparently decided to repatriate his remains after 230 years.

Remember to vote & that GOP will cut aid to Ukraine

Reminds me of a documentary I saw of North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. There are whole apartment blocks there that look fabulous streetside but there’s nothing behind them but decrepit buildings.