Maureen Dowd: Putin and Trump are both losers refusing to admit defeat

Like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin is famous for accusing everyone else of his own sins.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, long entwined, continue on vile parallel paths: they would rather destroy their countries than admit they have lost.

The Ukrainians are battling for a luminous ideal – unlike Trump and Putin, who are smashing a luminous ideal for their own benefit, driven by their dread of being called losers.

Pressured by allies and humiliated by his awful judgment in thinking that swallowing Ukraine would be a cakewalk, Putin seems ever more unhinged.

Both thugs are getting boxed in, Trump by a bouquet of investigations into his chicanery and Putin by an angry public pushback against his bloody vanity war.

Pressured by allies and humiliated by his awful judgment in thinking that swallowing Ukraine would be a cakewalk, Putin seems ever more unhinged.

It would be poetic justice to think the walls were closing in on Putin and Trump at the same time, because at some point, all this will become unsustainable

Both Putin and Trump are famous for accusing everyone else of their own sins

It would be poetic justice to think the walls were closing in on Putin and Trump at the same time, because at some point, all this will become unsustainable