We've got Putin and his paranoia until 2036!

If only this was the last throw of Vladimir Putin. But he has changed the Russian constitution to allow him to be president until 2036 when he will be 84 and probably still going strong although he looks pretty peaky with his bulging, stretched cheeks. He is on a mission and he has the time on his hands to carry on with his vision to shove the West well away from his part of the world and rebuild his empire. He will never be satisfied with grabbing Ukraine. He thinks he has the right and the ability to seize back countries where there are Russian speakers who have betrayed him, yes him, and he will force them back into Russia's sphere of influence one way or the other. This is the view of Fiona Hill, the brilliant Russian expert and former member of the White House National Security Council, in a fascinating but terrifying interview in Politico. Her words need to be read and considered by every leader in Nato and, most importantly, by Joe Biden. She doesn't believe that Putin is going to stop or be stopped from his grand plan and that he will use every weapon at his disposal, even nuclear, to achieve his objectives. He's that dangerous. After all, as she points out, he has already used radioactive Polonium to murder dissident-in-exile and former spy Alexander Litvinenko and turned to a chemical weapon, Novichok, to try and kill former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal. Will sanctions and a ruined Russian economy stop him? No, very doubtful. Will he just carry on until he has achieved, militarily, what he set out to do six days ago? Absolutely, and right now I can't see how anything or anyone is going to stop him.