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‘It pains me to have to say that the versatile Vlad makes a much better columnist than I’d be a KGB torturer’

September 14, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Mark Steyn writes:

His “plea for caution” was an exquisitely masterful parody of liberal bromides far better than most of the Times’ in-house writers can produce these days.

This is what happens when you elect someone because he looks cool standing next to Jay-Z. Putin is cool mainly in the sense that Yakutsk in February is.

In American pop-culture terms, he is a faintly ridiculous figure, with his penchant for homoerotic shirtlessness, his nipples entering the room like an advance security team…

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