Warmongers like Putin are products of toxic masculinity.

[Coventina]

Go ahead and flame away, if you want.

I firmly believe it to be so.

[SheltieLover]

1. Absofuckingloutely!

Like a redneck on steroids with billions for war machines.

[onecaliberal]

2. Sorry but I agree.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Brainwashing

He was brain washed the same way I was - just on the opposite side of the Czech border and Wall (west germany).

I'm an officer's brat - cold war warrior's kid. . . .

I hate the Russians and they are an existential threat to me and my country.

I'm sure Putin feels the same way.

Think you had to be in that environment in the 1970's when the East German/Russian terrorists were attacking Americans, American Forces, their families every few days.

[marie999]

9. He was born in Leningrad 7 years after WWII.

I am sure he heard many stories about the war. About not only German soldiers, but Italian, French, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovakian, and Croatian.

[Claustrum]

4. I think this is more a problem of power corrupts, especially when it comes to absolute power.

It's a problem when people elevated to absolute power in authoritarian or dictatorship countries and their power gets unchecked. It's just their power get into their head and they think too highly of themselves and what they can do. I think a woman would have been corrupted as well. But we will never know because women wouldn't have been elevated to those position in the first place.

[MineralMan]

5. Oligarchies are Patriarchies.

Thus has it always been.

Yes. Toxic masculinity runs deep in tyranny.

[orwell]

6. Spot on...

...most of our current problems are rooted in 10's of thousands of years of patriarchy.

Toxic masculinity is just a symptom of the larger issue...

[2naSalit]

7. Can't argue with that. ...nt

[Initech]

8. No arguments here!