Each time that Russian President Vladimir Putin works to convince us all that we are on the brink of Armageddon, I find, for some days, and even weeks, that I am making slightly different decisions, clouded by the awareness that most of us may be dead within coming weeks.
For sure, his latest parade is surely the stuff of nightmares: as he runs referendums in areas of Ukraine his forces have occupied, for them to vote to become part of Russia, which he will effect this week, and then telling the world he will use nuclear weapons if anyone attacks these new ‘Russian states’.
