Rich Lowry needs to find a real job because he is a terrible journalist!

Echo report published in RawStory by Tom Boggioni:

Steve Schmidt blows conservative out of the water for claiming Putin was 'frightened' of Trump

Following Russian President Vladimir Putin's (dangerously crazy!) - wrongminded-decision to send troops into Donetsk and Luhansk as part of his incursion into Ukraine, the National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry (ugh!) tweeted out that Putin likely made the move because Trump is out of office and the Russian strongman was "frightened' by the ex-president's unpredictability. (IMO Rich Lowry is guilty of journalistic opportunism. He either plagiarizes what he writes by lifting it from other sources - like EuroNews- or he just makes stuff up.)

Thank you! Schmidt has been extremely critical of former President Donald Trump, and of the GOP for supporting him. In June 2018, Schmidt renounced the Republican Party as "fully the party of Trump".

Lowry's stupidity, in turn, led to a scathing response from former the Republican campaign consultant Steve Schmidt, who let Lowry know, in no uncertain terms, that he regards Trump as "a whore ... who would sell out his country; her values and ideals for nothing but flattery."

As Lowry sees it, "The sheer unpredictably of Trump, his anger at being defied or disrespected, his willingness to take the occasional big risk (the Soleimani strike), all had to make Putin frightened or wary of him in a way that he simply isn’t of Joe Biden."

Schmidt begged to differ in a tweetstorm that began, "This is a world view I have never understood. Trump is the most predictable person in the world. He is as predictable as the Sun setting in the west and rising in the east. There is no mystery around Trump. How could there be? The idea that Vladimir Putin was kept guessing by Trump is lunacy."

He then added, "What Putin saw was strategic incoherence shaped by a vast ignorance of the world," before later adding, "Trump fetishized the world’s strongmen and lambasted our allies. He was as indifferent to repression abroad as he was to democracy at home. He was a Buffon set loose upon the stage and everyone played their part."

At the end, Schmidt took a veiled swipe at the longtime National Review editor by writing, "He [Trump] has blighted the culture for more than 40 tedious years. In all that time, it wasn’t until he got to Washington DC that he found marks naïve enough to believe there is an actual strategy to it all."

Maine Writer- Quick thinking from Steve Schmidt!

Mr. Schmidt gives expert advice from Twitter: "The United States should destabilize Putin by destabilizing the Russian elite. Make them pay the price. Financial, legal and immigration restrictions should be imposed immediately. Access to Western education should be shuttered to Russian nationals and Russian owned and flagged private vessels 🚢 should be refused anchorages in Western waters. There is still plenty of winter left in Moscow."

P.S. IMO: Rich Lowry should find a job as a night shift copy editor for Pravda. 

Putin's Russia is creating an ugly and dangerous world

Putin's phallic parade.  

Putin brought together a disgusting show of military force on May 9th, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Meanwhile, Russia, continues to be aggressive in the Ukraine. 

Undoubtedly, Putin is a somber hybrid world leader, a cross between Napoleon and Stalin.

It makes no sense whatsoever for President Putin of Russia to waste his nation's limited human and financial capital on a pompous Victory Day parade, staged to create an ugly image of his nation. While other European nations were remembering the somber 70th anniversary of the end of the horrific World War II, Putin took the opportunity to stage an expensive military parade.  

Rather than honor the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Putin's ostentatious parade in Moscow on May 9th, was eerily reminiscent of the World War II enemies who infected Europe and murdered millions of Russians in the turmoil.

World War II 

Reichsparteitag 1934, Luitpoldarena, "Totenehrung" (honouring of dead): SS-leader Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler and SA-leader Viktor Lutze on the terrace in front of the "Ehrenhalle" (Hall of Honour); in the background: the crescent-shaped "Ehrentribüne" (literally: tribune of honour)

Compare the black and white historic photograph with the grim 70th anniversary Putin Parade, adorned with phallic symbols of ugly military power.

Putin's "Phallic" Parade

Russia stages massive WW2 parade despite Western boycott

BBCNews reports

Russia has staged its biggest military parade, marking 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

Thousands of troops marched across Red Square in Moscow, and new armour was displayed for the first time.

Many foreign dignitaries were present, but most Western leaders stayed away, because of Russia's role in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin said global co-operation had been put at risk in recent years. His Ukrainian counterpart accused him of justifying aggression.

Russia denies claims by the West that it is arming rebels in eastern Ukraine. More than 6,000 people have been killed since fighting began in April 2014 in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

It's difficult to  understand how Putin can get away with telling lies about his Ukranian aggression, when 6,000 people have died as a result of his deadly military action.  

Putin is a pathetically pompous Russian leader who is preoccupied with his phallic power. Rather than honor the memories of those who sacrificed during World War II, he has contributed to creating an ugly and dangerous world.