Yes, one thinks these days that it can't get any worse.

But don't forget that it could have been worse.

Don't you think so?

Then please imagine how we would have to fear and tremble if Donald Trump were still in office.

Bertolt Kohler

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Then a madman could bring about the end of the world not only in the Kremlin at any time, but also in the White House.

Trump is said to have asked three times in the first briefing about the American nuclear arsenal what the expensive toys are good for if he is not allowed to use them.

As a replacement for the Armageddon button, staffers hoping to survive Trump's presidency installed a button on his desk that would only allow him to fire a request for a Coke.

He wasn't given any more options.

Surely some wise man had thought of the episode of the legendary British series Spitting Image, in which a rubber Ronald Reagan didn't press the button "nurse" but "nuke", accidentally.

We have to fight back, also with gallows humor

But by now you'll be asking yourself: What's the point of these little jokes here?

It's war!

Isn't humor, even black, completely out of place here?

This view can be held.

On the other hand, as we see in Ukraine, everyone can only fight with the weapons they have.

And should we really leave Putin unresistingly in the land of irony and sarcasm, which he incidentally invaded when he verbosely justified his attack on Ukraine?

No, that would be cowardice before the enemy!

In this fight we have to defend ourselves with everything we have at our disposal, even with a gallows humor that hasn't gone as moldy as the joke about the NVA rockets.

What a pity that Selenskyj cannot pursue his learned profession and that there is no new Charlie Chaplin in the West who could throw a sequel to “The Great Dictator” into battle.

Who knows what course history would have taken if the Germans had been able to laugh at this parody as early as 1940.

With his productions in the Kremlin, Putin even provided material for an entire comedy series.

Just think of the scene when the intelligence chief reeled off the wrong text twice and was then cast off by Putin as the dumbest spy of all time.

A first class mockumentary!

Sacha Baron Cohen couldn't have played it better either.

Even the SPD-Metternich applauded

Of course, Putin's state actors will not have found the humiliation funny.

Should you feel sorry for them?

We had more sympathy for our Social Democrats when they had to applaud decisions made by their chancellor in the Bundestag that they had considered the devil the day before.

The war in Ukraine shook the Socialists' belief in the goodness of Putin so deeply that even SPD-Metternich Mützenich applauded when Scholz announced the billion-euro armament on credit.

But it can't have been that difficult for the SPD.

She had agreed to war credits before.

Everywhere Putin is getting rid of the useful idiots who suddenly no longer understand how they could have been so naïve all these years.

Even Matthias Platzeck handed in his farewell.

The former SPD chairman had campaigned so long and fervently "for more understanding for Russian perspectives, for security needs there" that one might have thought he would be paid as well as Gerhard Schröder.

Of course, the former chancellor is and will remain in a class of his own.

He remains loyal to Putin.

Neither the shame nor the threat of sanctions can stop Schröder in his stubborn run.

You can see the affinity with his master in the Kremlin, who works according to the motto: Once the reputation is ruined, it unashamedly occupies itself.

Yes, this joke had to be now too.

Dictators fear little so much as jokes made about them.

The ridiculous undermines their power.

So folks, laugh at Putin even when we all feel like crying!