Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist

I hate to say it, but it really looks like Putin is the irrefutable good guy in all of this. And he's frustrated by "the empire of lies". "Empires of lies" happen when universities get infiltrated and kids are taught by the tribe that the truth is not what matters, what people believe is the truth is what matters.

Imagine a news agency or politician with THAT as the moral foundation . . . what do you get? "An empire of lies". The KGB may not have been nice to deal with, but they did not operate on falsehood. They were blind to a lot. Putin is not going to accept "the empire of lies" very well.

INSIGHT:

Some of the top KGB people paid a visit to Brigham Young university in the 1970's. They stood on top of the arts building and looked down at all the cars in the parking lot. They said "Wow, the staff has really nice cars". They were corrected: "Those are the student's cars". They did not believe it, and instead believed the United States took cars from all over the country and parked them there for a fake show. They, even being what they were, did not believe the United States could possibly be like that. They were honestly in error. They were not liars. There's a big difference between being honestly wrong and a pathological liar. And, to top it all off, Putin's not even wrong this time around.

Putin has morals, and he's cornered by "an empire of lies". What will he do? Time will tell but I'd start with cutting off oil and gas to Europe if the West gets any friskier.

PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF THE WEF. That's a REAL GOOD sign. If he was the enemy of all of us the way Biden is, he was not "good enough" at it.