i was undecided on posting this till i saw the orange man playing golf surrounded by concertina wire. we've succeeded in reaching the status of a movie of the sort hollywood makes with schwartzenegger; 

 

These are surreal optics.

Particularly at a time when Western media jeers at Putin for allegedly dotting his “Lake Valdai retreat” with an AD shield, and mocks Mojtaba Khamenei for “hiding like a rat”. The President of the United States of America is playing golf enwreathed in concertina wire with a mobile surface-to-air battery as his caddy cart, only days after escaping Turkey in a meat locker, all while US sailors literally fling themselves from the gunwales of Navy flagships to escape a war that has seen every American base in the region get debasified.

Folks. These are not normal times—we may be in the end game here..........more........