[Skybird]

I have started to lose my grim sense of black humour over all this, and Putin. I really think he now is kind of insane. Which means: things are out of control already.

He had the dream to bring back the Sovjet Union. He is old. His time is running out, he feels death crawling nearer to him every day. He may take medicine, or may suffer brain fog. But it is not uncommon that older people also start to change their personality, sometimes they become softer and more confused, sometimes paranoia and getting locked in in their inner worlds takes over. He made calculation errors and big undsiciplined moves and claims that are untypical for him. He always was a beast and a killer, a tyrant and oppressor, but he was extremely smart, disciplined, clever: without scruples, without remorse, too, yes, but he played all world leaders against the wall since very long time. And now? Mistake follows mistake, misassessment follows misassessment.

HE BLEW IT.

And he knows it. Its all lost, he can destroy the Ukraine, but he will not get from the world what he wanted. All the past twenty years - ruined in the present time'S events and actions.

I think he has gone nutter. My official diagnosis would be: age-related cognitive and intellectual degeneration of brain functions, accompanied by severe personality changes, paranoia and delusions.

In other words he is a ticking nuclear time bomb, instabile, unpredictable, and utmost dangerous. Its said that he has brought his family into a nuclear bomb shelter somewhere in Siberia.

There may be people in the Western military, intel community, governmental services, who maintain contacts to their functional pendants in Russia. I think these contacts are needed now to someho get the second line officials in Russia putting bullets through some heads before it is too late. I start to think this might be indeed our only chance to escape a big inferno.

Telling the Ukrainians to sacrifice themselves for the higher wellbeing of the remaining world, is something I will never suggest and will never accept to be done in my name. We are all in this together. We do not draw lots. In the end, it also would be be appeasement that will not work, because Putin is insane. He next will do the same again (Russia still is encircled by enemies, isn'T it, and the Sovjet Union still in not reinstated, yes?) , accuse for example Finland of something and of being not submissive enough anymore and attack it, or strike Europe directly for being too Russia-hostile. He lives in his own world now. The hot wire to reality seems to have broken.

We also must win the media war. The control over the news is no more as total in Russia as it once has been, many people have returned from travels outside Russia, or have alternative media access. The news may make the round at slower pace, but it will make the round. And it must. We must make sure it does. Russians must relaise the brutal truth. The ordinary military must realise the truth. For the moment, however, my impression is that still a majority of Russians is behind Putin. That must be a major concern of ours. You do not break with your beoleives you held for a lfieitme from ione day to the nwext, you do not like to be told that you live not in the country of the light and the good, but the dark and the demons.

I now think Russian use of nukes in Ukraine, if it does not go as they want, is an absolutely realistic possibility. Not a certainty, but a realistic possibility. We must take it into account.

Markus, you warned of such an escalation already weeks ago, and I sat here and smiled for myself about that, did not take it serious. But I had to change my mind in past 2, 3 days, reading about their nuclear doctrine from 2020 really flipped some switches in my brain. You were right with your worries. Things are worrying.

I also noticed in past days that the attempts by real or self-declared experts on TV rejecting the nuclear risk, have intensified. If there is a thing in the world that rings my alarms in no time, then officials and experts pressing harder and harder telling me that everything is alright: nothing is more suspicous than this.

Beware the old men, they have nothing to lose and may have lost their senses already. History books are full of such bastards.


P.S. And just watch at his facial expression the lack of any, that is! This strange expression, his always desinterested, avoiding eyes. Its alienating to look him into the face. He always practiced a pokerface, and was very unmoved, always, but now - I don'T know, I have seen such facial expressions before. In mental hospital during my second practical. The diagnosis mostly was schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder. It may have been pokerface only in the past, but today - I dont know, I dont like what I see in his face. Something has changed for the worse. It rings general quarters on my ship.


He is a secret service man. It is sometimes said secret services have preferred certain personality structures they look for in candidates, attributes that make these people preferrably for the type of business they are beign asked for. Human kindness and honesty hardly are part of those wanted traits.