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Originally Posted by Catfish
So true, and b.t.w. no one in the west wanted to have Ukraine in NATO, or the EU 
This may change now. If Putin has "success" with anything it will be Ukraine in the NATO, with Finnland probably following suit. Driving more nations into NATO while making Russia an international pariah and creating economical hardship for her people. And all western nations stepping up their defenses in fear.
But fascists and NATO is only a pretext anyway, Putin wants to expand "his" Russia to cold war times, one country after the other: Chechenia, Georgia, the Krim, now Ukraine, and he already threatened the baltic states, and Finnland.
And that is the problem, if he does not succeed now he will probably use thermobaric bombs or even nuclear ones against Ukraine, and then he may probably want to leave this life with a bang. He gives a sh!t about Russia and the people. |
Anyone remembering "Citizen Kane":
Rosebud?
If there is any linearity in Putin's psychological biography, then it
visibly starts from the collapse of the USSR on. That was his Rosebud moment, so to speak. And as a secret service man who was selected for that job, he was filtered out for havign certain character traits and mind skills: intelligeence, and probabaly some trait that could be summarised as in total pointing at something like a psychopathic, paranoid and/or anti-empathic personality structure (I have not yet watched the video Jim has linked, its very long...). You find psychopathic personality structures like this statistically valid accumulated in people in certain jobs, for example senior doctors at hospitals, company top managers, top ban kers, poltlicla leaders and poltlicla top offic eholders. You see, certain traits in people enable them, maybe better formulated: help them to reach these positions and occupy them. Its a two-split sword, itu can help tp push throuzgh good work or goals, and it can work for turning the job holder into a monstrosity.
Which we see in case of Putin.
That cannot be an excuse to not get rid of him, no matter in which way. I do not excuse with the above, I try to explain. That are two very different things.