--- title: Puppet Regime: Insecurity Counsel description: The world keeps getting crazier. Desperate times call for small felt creatures canonical: https://time.com/5030699/puppet-regime/ author: Ian Bremmer article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-18T17:48:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:18:18.303Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Puppet Regime: Insecurity Counsel og:description: The world keeps getting crazier. Desperate times call for small felt creatures og:url: https://time.com/5030699/puppet-regime/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Puppet Regime: Insecurity Counsel twitter:description: The world keeps getting crazier. Desperate times call for small felt creatures twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Puppet Regime: Insecurity Counsel  by [Ian Bremmer](https://time.com/author/ian-bremmer/)  ## Ian Bremmer Nov 18, 2017 5:48 PM UTC  by [Ian Bremmer](https://time.com/author/ian-bremmer/)  ## Ian Bremmer Nov 18, 2017 5:48 PM UTC The world keeps getting crazier. I’ve spent the last 20 years making my living explaining global politics to business people, politicians and the public alike. But desperate times call for small felt creatures. I now present to you PUPPET REGIME, a show unlike anything you’ve ever seen. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5030699/puppet-regime/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5030699/puppet-regime/"},"headline":"Puppet Regime: Insecurity Counsel","datePublished":"2017-11-18T17:48:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:18:18.303Z","description":"The world keeps getting crazier. Desperate times call for small felt creatures","url":"https://time.com/5030699/puppet-regime/","keywords":["ideas","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ian Bremmer","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/ian-bremmer/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ideas/","name":"ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5030699/puppet-regime/","name":"Puppet Regime: Insecurity Counsel"}}]}] ```