Is Putin Dead?

Putin hasn’t been seen in public for a week and suspicions, explanations and possibilities -from hopeful to tragic – are flying.

The hopeful explanations are centered around Putin being dead. The tragic suggest that he’s busy planning a change of course towards an openly Stalinist model or possibly a nuclear war.

And I just suspect that he’s getting yet another plastic surgery. He did look like a person who’s had a stroke right before disappearing from view but people do tend to look that way after Botoxing like crazy for a decade.

I also think this is all a ploy to distract attention from an approaching Russian offensive on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. A huge number of troops has been gathered near the border and right in front of Mariupol.