I realize there are no bears in Saudi Arabia and perhaps Prince Bandar Bin Sultan has never seen one in a zoo or in a National Geographic program and that explains his stupid recklessness.
The Ugly Truth, a site of excellent coverage of the news that also has some of the best art in this online genre, occasionally runs this image of Putin:
Imagine a skunk
now trying to slime the Bear and you have an accurate pictorial representation of this encounter, reported by Stop NATO:“Unconfirmed reports have suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a grim urgent action memorandum ordering a massive military strike on Saudi Arabia in the event of an attack on Syria.
It is reported that Putin was enraged after a meeting held with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan. In the meeting, Sultan warned that if Russia did not accept the defeat in Syria it will unleash Chechen rebels, under its control.
The news report was first published in As-Safir and carried forward by Library of Most Controversial Files.
The news, if confirmed, could seriously jeopardize an already complex situation.”
Now imagine the denouement: a small black-and-white pelt hanging on a tree limb, swaying in the wind. It is the stuff La Fontaine fables are made of. Or limericks:
There once was an uppity skunk
Who put the Big Bear in a funk
What all that produced
Was to have him reduced
To two tiny balls and some gunk.