Brutal Men with Unlimited Power

You may have come across the conundrum: What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?  The resolution is that there are no such things as either irresistible forces or immovable objects.

Similarly, there is no such thing as “unlimited power.”  Both Trump and Putin are in the process of finding this out…the hard way.

Trump looked invincible until he failed in his attempted coup d’état over the United States government.  Today, Putin looks like he may be the world’s ultimate strongman, but how strong will he look in a few years, when Russia is economically destitute, and the international justice system wants to send him away for a life prison term as a war criminal?

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