Mark Small

5/15 Players: the most powerful man in the World - Dictator of All the Russias - Vladimir Putin. Putin’s (necessary) foil is dt. Goals: reduce the U.S. to a laughingstock and secure Russia’s place as the World’s main, perhaps only, superpower

6/15 Putin is not averse to killing people by the score. He secured his hold as leader of Russia by staging fake terrorist attacks and snuffing them. Just as one must break a few eggs to make an omelet, one must kill people by the score to be a dictator

7/15 Putin hates the USA. In 2006 he compared the USA to the Third Reich. The U.S., after all, invaded Russia in 1919. That of which Americans are ignorant, Russians don’t forget. ..

8/15 We provided Stinger missiles & other ordinance to guerillas who killed his countrymen as they fought a pointless war in Afghanistan. We pride ourselves on democratic principles and freedom

9/15 Putin wanted dt to take the 2016 election because (1) Putin did not want Secretary Clinton in office and (2) because he wanted to hold up our system to the ridicule of the World. Putin got his many rubles’ worth.

10/15 Putin wants dt to retain office. Putin cares about ends, not so much the means, but if the means increase Russia’s power and influence in other ways, then the ends are so much the better. And now, what could happen:

11/15 U.S. drones kill several Russian military personnel in full uniform. Putin’s attacks on all 10 U.S. aircraft carriers succeed because Russia hacked U.S. military computers & adopted Chinese 1,000 anti-ship missile strategy for attack of a capital ship.

12/15 dt takes break fr golf, announces USA at war & says we’ll launch nukes. Putin knows threat is empty (our computers are hacked) but cites threat 2 justify Russia’s nuke attacks on Boston & NYC on East coast, & Seattle and San Francisco-Oakland on the West.