Putin, as with Trump, is hoist with his own petard. Victims of their own lies. Trump, he of the ‘election fraud’ is exposed daily as the great fraudster, the ‘greatest’ fraudster. But Putin may be giving him competition for that historic epithet. Putin has exposed the lie of the once and future Russian 'Empire'; it is but a Potemkin empire.

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."