In the light of the political standoff and exchange of threats between Russia and the U.S. over the Ukraine quagmire, there is now considerable anxiety that an Armageddon scenario may have become a possibility.
A president who demonstrably suffers from an alarming degree of advancing cognitive derangement does not inspire confidence, to put it mildly, in his ability to manage national affairs, whether domestically or globally. Many regard him as a puppet controlled by his “handlers,” whoever these shadowy figures may be—his secretary of State, his inner circle, his financial backers, or his wife in a bizarre reprise of the Edith Wilson presidency when Woodrow Wilson fell severely ill. But this arrangement does not lessen the peril.
