Putin

 I’m voting Vladimir Putin off the island of human beings. He’s a rat, a snake, a cockroach. No, that’s not fair to those creatures. They’re just doing what evolution programmed them to do. Putin has peeled off every layer of his humanity. What’s left? Is there even a name for what he is? Ukrainians aren’t just Ukrainians. They are human beings. Putin has betrayed any humanity he has because he has so denied their humanity.

But isn’t this the same story of Hitler, Duvalier in Haiti, Madero in Venezuela and all the other dictators across the world and time. Beyond that, though at another level, we can’t escape our own disastrous engagement in Vietnam. Maybe it’s hopeless because this is something human beings can’t escape.