Vlad is the penultimate product of the system that trained him and the system he once served. An utterly ruthless , soul-less apparatchik who’d literally kill his own mother if ordered to do so. If Putin were president of the US and had the backing of Congress and confidence of the military, Islam would be spoken of only in the past tense. Where the rest of us might be, well, that’s a different story.
Spot on. Rottweilers can be impressive when you hold the leash, or terrible when you don’t.