Russia’s president declared this recession will not stand. NY Post contributor Andrew Chakhoyan shares this story.
Like a comic-book villain — melodramatic and delusional — Vladimir Putin seems convinced saying something makes it true.
But the out-of-control inflation he wishes away doesn’t answer to bluster: It empties stores and strains family budgets.
Putin’s superpowers are as real as those of the state he runs.
Moscow’s impotence is visible to anyone willing to look.
Eleven years into its crusade against a neighbor one-quarter its size, Russia holds less Ukrainian ground than it did in 2022, and its latest tactics — terrorizing civilians — are best described as a tyrant tantrum.
Each dawn brings killer drones and missiles aimed not at Ukraine’s military targets but at apartment buildings, playgrounds, maternity wards.
In Kherson, a Russian drone operator killed 1-year-old Dmytryk in his grandmother’s yard.
This was no isolated incident — the United Nations was investigating these “human safari” attacks as crimes against humanity before this cold-blooded execution of a toddler made headlines.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/opinion/vladimir-putin-throws-a-tyrant-tantrum-but-russia-is-big-brutish-and-bluffing/
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