TRULY CHILLING – AT 11:14 A.M. ET:  Vladimir Putin has plans for us.  Big plans.  He's had them for years, but a certain president we had for eight years just wasn't listening.  From Newsmax: 

Florida's in the crosshairs of Russia's beefed-up nuclear weaponry.

During his annual address to Russia's Parliament, President Vladimir Putin rolled out a video hyping the nation's military tech that featured multiple nuclear warheads streaking through space before raining down on what appears to be the outline of Florida, CNN reported.

"We've developed new strategic weapons that don't use ballistic trajectory at all, which means that missile defense will be useless against it," he boasted.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said department officials didn't enjoy the show.

"It was certainly unfortunate to have watched the video animation that depicted a nuclear attack on the United States," she told CNN. "That's certainly something that we did not enjoy watching. We don't regard that as the behavior of a responsible international player."

One CNN analyst said the video had a target audience of one: President Donald Trump, whose home-away-from-home is in Florida.

"I do think Vladimir Putin was speaking to one audience," national security analyst Samantha Vinograd said. "It wasn't anyone in Russia. It was Donald Trump."

COMMENT:  George W. Bush mistakenly said that he'd looked into Putin's eyes and believed he could work with him.  Trump has said some equally foolish things. 

Obama was beyond salvation, even being caught on tape, when he didn't know the mike was on, promising the Russian president that he could be more flexible after the 2012 election was over.  Nothing like a little honesty, Barack.

I hope the wishful thinking is over.  As Mitt Romney said in the 2012 campaign, to much ridicule, Russia is our greatest geopolitical challenge.  Let's act that way.

March 2, 2018