[DoodleBob]

Kasparov's effective defeat of Karpov in the mid 80s by playing for draws in a match he was losing, which emotionally drained and weakened the elder Karpov, was super genius.

Kasparov is indeed interesting. Except Kasparov has the game wrong. Putin is played poker, not chess. Aside from that, he's spot-on and notwithstanding the slobbering class' love for Putin's faux conservatism, I'm interested in how comparable is Putin's laptop contents to that of Hunter's.

[canuck_conservative]

Putin seems detached from reality, and that’s not good in a dictator

He’s doing steroids, he’s posing shirtless with bears, etc., thinking he’s still a 20-year-old ... he’s freaking 70 and can’t realize that

just like he can’t realize that the old Soviet union is gone ... yet he still obstinately tries to put it back together, no matter how much misery & destruction is involved

Putin is a menace ... to the World, and to Russia itself

good riddance ASAP ... by natural or unnatural causes!!