In this farce only Vladimir Putin looks good. He is an old pro who ran the KGB in East Germany, and managed to rise after the Soviet Union dissolved. These days you can see hundreds of photos of ole Vlad preparing to kiss the ring of the Patriarch of Moscow. Putin has had a religious conversion, or he is pretending to. He went to Jerusalem to pray at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, then visited the Pope and gave him an Orthodox icon, which they both kissed reverently. In Jerusalem he met with the Israeli cabinet, and Netanyahu brought out elderly Jewish vets from the Great Patriotic War. Welcome to the Holy Land, Tovarishch Prezident!
Putin is doing all the things American politicians used to do, along with a certain amount of assassination. He is the new Tsar, after all.
Obama never fooled Putin. Seasoned politicians can spot hustlers like him a mile away. The Russian Federation is still staffed by KGB types, and their psychiatrists build up personality profiles of opponents like Obama. Every censored fact American conservatives dug out in the last five years, Putin has known from day one.
A few weeks ago Obama got the EU and Putin to sign a "peace deal" that put Israel on the spot to give chunks of its tiny territory to the terror regimes, for nothing in return. As part of Obama's stab in the back, Israel was confronted with a giggling Mullah Rouhani snapping up the ultimate deal. Netanyahu stood up to relentless browbeating from our Bully in Chief and said No.
Our despicable media instantly smeared Netanyahu, the way they always do.
It was a Churchill moment for Netanyahu...
“When the government fears the people there is liberty; When the people fear the government there is tyranny."