Putin's Chef Problem.
How can Sorcerer Putin survive, if he passes the reins to the Chef Charioteer he trained and empowered?
Yet, how can Sorcerer Putin survive, if he doesn't stand aside to enable his Sorcerer’s Apprentice to take over?
This is the Plight of the Sorcerer.
It has featured in Indo-European stories for millennia.
Since early March 2022, Putin's Magical 🪄manipulative powers have been noticeably on the wane.
Nothing has gone right for him.
Even those who dutifully surrendered to his enspelling nonsense now won't take his calls.
I first noted how President Zelenskyy's Magical powers to curse, outwit, and humiliate the Sorcerer Putin were growing in proportion to Putin's loss of power at the end of March 2022.
Until recently I had ignored Putin's Apprentice, the Chef, who is now at the height of his powers.
Every day since 2012 the Chef's trolling Disinfolklore has featured across global media. His Disinfolklore even got Trump and Brexit voted in.
Only now instead of the Chef's Disinfolklore being the concealed trolling output of his St Petersburg Disinfolklore War Magic production factories - the Internet Research Agency - the Chef today is the star of the show himself.
Why and how has this happened?
The answer is simple: Putin's Rasputin - this turbulent priest of the St Petersburg underground men - is ready to take over the chariot.
These days the Magician Apprentice doesn't even disguise himself or his ambition:
Just an iphone and grainy footage, and his every muttered thought and trolling grandfather glasses is front-page news across the earth.
The Chef Rooster has sacrificed 100,000 Ukrainians' lives since Feb 24th 2022.
Like every Indo-European monarch for millennia he boasts of the human sacrifices he has made.
From these sacrifices his power and authority emanates.
The Magician Chef has vaporised entire cities in central Europe - Popasna and Bakhmut, and the rest.
75,000 Russians have died at his command in six months in Bakhmut.
And before this, his Nazi-worshipping soldiers in his Nazi-branded "Wanger" group had murdered 100,000s of Syrians.
Yet, the Chef's power as the Magi Apprentice is such, that the NYT, Guardian, and assorted other naïfs fall daily for his trolling Disinfolklore.
They breathlessly quote and report verbatim as truth his every bespelling utterance.
Like they did before with butcher Putin of Grozny, they now do with the Chef:
Unknowingly, Western leaders and opinion-formers promote the Chef as before they promoted his Sorcerer Master Putin.
Every Western website reference eulogising the Butcher of Bakhmut, with his trolling grandpa glasses, is echoed back into Ruschist info-space as evidence the West respects the Chef, and will accept him as the new Sorcerer Monarch.
The Chef's Internet Research Agency enspelled America and England into voting for Trump and Brexit. That was his time as Putin's apprentice.
Now, the Sorcerer Master Putin who created him cannot destroy the Chef without destroying himself.
Nor, can Putin promote the Chef, while being certain that once promoted, the Chef won't destroy Putin.
The Plight of the Saucerer.