Ah, B Kean, to be sure, I was amused, not offended! I am so rarely invited to show a fellow writer how to do better — I did co-author a book about it, though, which you might enjoy. The Master Communicator’s Handbook).

In this particular instance, I found the jumbling of metaphors problematic: the canary (which ought to be in a coal mine, as an early warning for things going wrong) instead flying out of the rabbit hole (where one burrows down for obsessively for excessive and perhaps irrelevant information) Putin, as a rabbit hiding in the bottom of the hat (rather than being pulled out of one by a magician, demonstrating an unexpected ability to solve problems) that your overall meaning quite closed the barn door on the hamster wheel and flew the coop.