Like Trump, Vladimir Putin takes what people let him take. He will do what he can get away with. The Russian president has now placed himself in league with some of history’s genocidal monsters, the likes of Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden, and a select group of others. He is isolated from every country and leader in the free world, with a few conspicuous exceptions that include the ex-president of the United States. Trump sounded as if he watched “genius” Putin’s slaughter of Ukraine with the same relish as he did his supporters’ ransacking of American democracy on January 6.
