Progress in Zimbabwe; Retrogression in Russia

Sunlight shines on Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe after today's announcement of a power-sharing deal, albeit one with Adolf Mugabe, the stunningly disconnected dictator of an increasingly unimpressed people. By contrast, the totally out-of-touch and boorish Czar Vladimir in contemporary Imperialist Russia does not understand that the forced occupation and annexation of sovereign neighboring territory is simply not acceptable in the civilized, modern era. He and Kremlin cronies may imagine themselves back in the era of Czarina Catherine the Great, but the rest of our planet sees them as vicious usurpers and illegitimate interlopers.