Well I’ve seen plenty of fly on the wall documentaries over the years, but rarely one that’s so fly in the ointment. The ointment in question being Vladimir Putin’s overt manipulation of school children in Russia to make sure the pupils and their teachers all dance to the tune of his “special milita...

If one were a tyrannical despot who recklessly launched his country into a questionable “special military operation” (i.e., unprovoked invasion) in a neighboring nation and needed to win over the unquestioning support of a skeptical populace, what would you do? That’s the question Russian head of st...