WORLD DOM PILLOW TALK

Putin, Xi Blowing Kisses — Part 1

A look back at our dark time’s worst couple of the year, 2022

Constructed pic, but the heart wants what the heart wants and feels the love and hate its secrets keep.

The heart in Panda’s hand was of course not added. But was it a world-wide love emoji? Only that? Welcoming athletes and fans from all nations with love and openness and love-thy-neighbor goodwill? Or was it also a global shout out, with a nod-and-a-wink to its frisky kitten Putin, his special-needs neighbor to the north and incorrigible mini morphin’ power ranger on his arm, for his early Valentine’s Day gift to Xi?

A gift that came wrapped in shrapnel. Along with a psychical Steely Dan for their megalomaniacal missile silos — meta figuratively speaking.

The gift that keeps on giving.

• As long as batteries and munitions last.
• And China abides.

A gift that for all that came of it since, may as well have had a perfumed card attached that read:

“To prove my love, my darling Panda Bear, I will kill my neighbors and start a war in Europe.

Yours to the end,

Vladi”

Maybe a little of both?

In all bunny-boiling, mutual Fatal Attraction, double doppio, dictator-to-dictator, reach around and bring me a muffin, and then I’ll do you a similar solid, seriousness. Look the other way while you give chase to a little death with benefits. NIMBY. But yours. At the time of the invasion, per best BBC reporting, “agents” in the West, also known as spies who like US, were trying to game out what was in Putin’s head.

We still need to and forever will need to look back and forward and game out, frame, know, own, and ask ourselves — WTF is he thinking? With all the hell that he’s unleashing?

What are his demented motives, goals, possible acceptable outs, and overall endgame, or does he even have one?, with starting an endless war in Europe and asking China to help with it?

Is Putin forcing Xi’s hand or being led by it?

Is he testing the waters of war for them both or is he testing the limits of the new besties forever Russo-Sino relationship?

Testing Xi’s pliability and China’s appetite for war, trying to start an all out East-West war now, on Russia’s best and only timeline and China’s political dime, just to screw with China’s rise — China’s economy is now 10x Russia’s and growing, when the two were roughly the same size in the ’80s.

Locking out everyone’s better options, and driving a wedge between China and the rest of the world for good, while he still can?

Pulling Xi to his side Thelma & Louise style.

Steering us all toward a cliff and hitting the gas.

Upsetting several of the world’s super-apple carts, and turning on the fog machine of war, just to see how things between China and the West turn out? Grabbing the popcorn. Trying to get away with all he can.

With all the money via graft flowing into his personal coffers from the munitions he’s exhausting and the oil he’s selling — increasingly to China to help fund the war and build murder escape rooms from Mariupol to Minsk and back again.

And not to mention the infrastructure he’s destroying.

Since, from where he’s sitting currently — on a Bert & Ernie booster seat somewhere not in jail — Russia win or lose, his first person shooter hits the bonus round.

Because whether it happens under reparations or expansion, at least some of the rebuild contracts — currently estimated at over $1.1 trillion and rising — will be ‘won’ or ‘winnable’ by his posse of oligarchs and Best Financial Friends Forever somewhere in the tax-haven-strewn and soon-to-be-looped-back-to-him world.

Unless of course they all land in the Hague and are stripped of their wealth for dare we say ‘wrongfully’ using their power and influence over Russia’s actions on the world stage and lying to the Russian people to terrorize and commit genocide against their fellow former Soviets, again, to turn a profit, which Pffft! Daring anyone to stop him or even notice?

Stay tuned to MuddyUm for Part 2

Where we explore the obvious next question: sub or Dom?

Is Xi more realistically the top in the newly evolving life partner phase of their long Sino-Russo relationship? Pulling the strings and planting seeds while teasing about silver patterns?

Pitching not catching plans for their world domination?

Excerpts above adapted from, expanded on, and transmogrified by pics and new links with healthy amounts of snark added to a Q1 ‘22 piece, on Dialogue & Discourse: Inside Putin’s Head? President Xi, Rasputin’s Ghost, and a Bag of Cats

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