And what Latuff always conveniently elides in his current series of cartoons is that the bullets are being fired by Putin and not Bush (incidentally, even Latuff acknowledges that the 'democratic constitution' of Russia is a farce: Putin is no longer President, so why is he highlighted rather than .... er, what'd his name?

And a war of bullets means a lot of dead people - but what are they compared with scoring political points?