Tag: putin
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A CORNERED PUTIN IS A DANGEROUS PUTIN – IT’S IMPORTANT TO GIVE HIM A WAY TO SAVE FACE (+PARALLELS TO CANTWELLS’ “DOCTOR DOOM” (2019))
Every tongue brings in a several tale,And every tale condemns me for a villain.Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree;Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree;All several sins, all used in each degree,Throng to the bar, crying all, “Guilty! guilty!”I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,And if I die no soul will pity me.…
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STAR TREK’S “BALANCE OF TERROR” – THE WEDDING THAT NEVER HAPPENS (+SOME PARALLELS TO PUTIN’S INVASION ON UKRAINE)
“Obedience. Duty. Death and more death. Soon even enough for the Praetor’s taste. Centurion, I find myself wishing for destruction before we can return.“ Romulan Commander in Balance of Terror Balance of Terror begins with an actual wedding on the Enterprise, conducted by Kirk, that gets interrupted by invasion. By the end of the episode…
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IS PUTIN TOO OLD TO WAGE HIS (WORLD?) WAR? (+COMPARISON WITH STALIN AND HITLER)
Putin’s age might be more significant in this matter than you think. Vladimir Putin is now 69 years old. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939, Hitler was 50, and his then ally, Stalin, was 60. That’s more than a decade less than Putin is right now, and in Hitler’s case almost 2…
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DR DOOM – HIS MOST IRRATIONAL DECISION? (“BOOKS OF DOOM”)
Many Doom fanboys usually highlight Dr Doom’s cold logic, his well-crafted and well-executed plans as some of the reasons they like him, but I, even though I still like Doom as a character, feel an urge to put at the forefront one of his most irrational decisions, featured in Ed Brubaker’s Books of Doom (2005).…
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DR DOOM’S WAR FOR ADMIRATION AND SADISTIC PLEASURE – HIS VILEST DEED? + SOME PARALLELS TO PUTIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE (BOOKS OF DOOM)
Ed Brubaker’s Books of Doom (2005) is an absolute origin-story masterpiece for the famous Marvel villain, and you will probably read about me analyzing different aspects of it through several posts. However, today I feel compelled to highlight Dr Doom’s perhaps vilest deed in a run that didn’t have a shortage of them. I haven’t…
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YOSHIHIRO TOGASHI’S “POOR-MAN’S ROSE”- WHY I LOVE THIS NAME FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON (HUNTERXHUNTER)
To an Ant, a flower is a giant. In the present unstable political climate, when the world seems to be teetering on the verge of a great conflict, the likes of which haven’t been seen in Europe since WW2, my mind, perhaps naturally, wandered to the extremes to which this conflict might (but hopefully won’t)…
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