flip-flop

The war-chest Putin stocked by doubtful means/
looked like enough...until his blitzkrieg stalled.
But now, he's calling up cold-war machines,
and even Stalin might have been appalled,
at so much blood spent for so little gain.
Ukrainians prove quite as tough as Finns;
The paper tiger crumples in Ukraine.
Such wars are quick to lose, but not to win;
Trump's realized that Putin's cause is lost.
The empire of the Czars ain't coming back.
As long as Europeans bear the cost,
He won't restrain Ukrainians' attack.
Increasingly, the Kremlin sulks alone,
and darling Vanya's never coming home.

2018

this cycle, eight contested seats are Red
a third of what the Democrats defend
McConnell's lodged it in his turtle head
that he could be Trump's savior, and friend
incumbents have the edge--unless they're Cruz
name-recognition's worth a mint alone
this Texas Senate seat is Ted's to lose
an asshole loathed the most where he's best known
an uphill fight, to trade Trump in for Pence
who thinks Creation's not that long ago
but weighed against Trump's gross incompetence
that's not the most germane stuff to not know
the world's aghast at what this fool might do
before both Houses can be painted Blue