Putin




 * ''The cover of the latest issue of the Economist features Russian President Vladimir Putin with a blackened face and glowing eyes. It is now official: Putin, and Putinism, are the work of the devil. That doesn’t simply mean that he is evil, but that, like the devil, Putin is powerful enough to face God and compete for souls. It also means that Russia, the country at the heart of the collapsed Soviet Union, has returned and is resuming its place as a global nightmare. From Aleppo to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Russians are stalking the earth, terrifying their neighbors and slapping around a feckless United States. If this sounds like 1980, it should. But then, remember that the demon that loomed over the world in 1980 collapsed a decade later.


 * — George Friedman in Geopolitical Futures, October 25, 2016


 * The primordial interest of the United States, over which for a century we have fought wars, the first, second, cold war, has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united they are the only force that could threaten us, and to make sure that that doesn't happen.


 * — George Friedman at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, February 2015

More slander

 * Evil Putin on the Cover of Britain's All Three Top Mags -- In the Same Week - Paul Robinson, Irrussianality, October 22, 2016
 * Which Would Be The Better Economist Cover? - ZeroHedge, October 23, 2016