Nuclear Winter — Putin’s Final Gift to the World?

Imagine that Adolf Hitler had produced nuclear weapons first. It’s not that hard as German scientists led the US Manhattan project. Now imagine Hitler down in the Berlin bunker near the end in his paranoid state, hands shaking, being told by his team of doctors he has terminal cancer and has just three months to live.

What do you think he might have done?

In his twisted state of mind, he would have taken as much of the world with him as he could.

Is there really any difference in the position Vladimir Putin now finds himself in, losing his war, isolated from the world, hated by hundreds of thousands of mothers, men of a certain age, and even the oligarchs whose fortunes he made. He is paranoid about eating poisoned food or catching germs from visitors, while his long table antics make Howard Hughes look normal.

Vladimir Putin is not a healthy man, physically or mentally. He has aged dramatically over the last year. By the best accounts, he has Parkinson’s disease and some kind of cancer. His hands shake constantly, and he travels everywhere with cancer specialists.

By some accounts, he needs serious medical treatment but won’t take it as that would meaning being sedated and transferring power. Once transferred, he could never be sure he’d get it back or even…