THE WORLDS RICHEST AND MOST DANGEROUS GANGSTER

"Suppose there's a Mafia Don. Not a benign and pro-American Marlon Brando Godfather, but a ruthless brutal gangster who hates America and holds a bottomless grudge against her.

Let's suppose this Mafioso has amassed an enormous personal fortune of ill-gotten gains. Stashed away in hidden bank accounts and assets all over the world, his net worth exceeds 20 billion dollars - billion with a ‘b'.

But say that's just his personal stash. Say the total amount of money his gang has accumulated is 300 billion - almost a third of a trillion dollars in cash. Say he controls it.

Let's finally suppose that this centibillionaire anti-American gangster has an arsenal of several thousand nuclear bombs, most of them in the nose cones of intercontinental missiles aimed at us.

If there were such a man, shouldn't we be a bit more worried about him than a bankrupt midget in Persia without a single real nuke to his name?

For there is indeed such a man. His name is Vladimir Putin, President of Russia." -- Dr. Jack Wheeler