THE BIG CHEESE'S BUST: A FIZZLE NOT A BANG

Well folks, it seems like Putin's Paradise/President Potemkin's Palace/Comrade Comfyville has turned out to be about as welcoming as a winter storm. Turns out all the {hoopla/fuss was just that, a whole lot of nothing. We were promised action/bravado/a real show, but instead we got a bunch of empty suits/bored bureaucrats/clueless cronies and some