The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Victor Davis Hanson: Putin’s Playthings
• Cal Thomas: Porking Out With Your Money
• George Will: Air Force Has Dug Into the Equivalent of Trench Warfare

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Opinion in Brief

Victor Davis Hanson: “Putin’s Russia is in bad shape. It is economically weak and eager to do anything possible to hurt the U.S. — largely by using a fake-news disinformation campaign, spreading Kremlin cash, and playing a gullible and often unprofessional U.S. media eager to find a scandalous Russian under every American bed. So far the Russian disinformation program has worked brilliantly. What foreign government could possibly entangle in truth, lies, half-truths, rumors and scandals the Trump family, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey, John McCain, John Podesta, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and a host of other Beltway grandees? Who could prompt enough investigations and inquiries to overwhelm and distract the entire U.S. government at a time when North Korea is aiming missiles at U.S. territory, Iran is pressing ahead to develop a nuclear weapon, Syria is a genocidal mess, and immigrants from the war-torn Middle East are sweeping across Europe? Putin is now America’s puppet master — and we are his empty-headed playthings dangling from his Kremlin strings.”