OK--- but 'how suicidal is he?' (Putin)

[DemocraticPatriot]

(Originally posted as a response to https://democraticunderground.com/100216442875
but so long-winded I thought I may as well make an OP of it-- as I'd appreciate response that is unlikely in some other thread)

God Bless the patriots in Ukraine-- ( or whatever deity, or no deity that you choose to believe in..)


OK--- but 'how suicidal is he?'

It isn't his veiled or not so veiled threats of nuclear war that frighten me-- after all, he is 'smart' and 'savvy' enough to realize that what he threatens is 'mutually assured suicide'-- if not personal suicide (since he could hunker down and survive for a long while), then the mutual suicide of Russia and the United States as superpowers, and as nation-states---


It is the fact that he does not seem entirely rational, in combination with his nuclear threats, which frightens me.
I don't want to die, yet...

As such, I am counting on the courage of the people of Ukraine, as our own 'buffer zone'. I pray for them to inflict so much damage on the Russian armed forces, that Putin will be unable to subsequently mount military aggression against any NATO country afterwards. I realize that this is selfish....but I no longer enjoy 'the immortality of youth'.

The borders of NATO countries is where I draw the line-- where we have actual treaty commitments. If it comes to that, then that is where we must stand firm and ignore his nuclear threats. This gives me a little time to make my own personal arrangements, if I believe they are necessary...

I bought a house in 2020, on the northern edge of a 'tertiary target', my state capitol... I was a 'student' of nuclear bomb effects and a 'survival hobbyist' in the 1980s--- but I thought those days were over when I bought this property. Now I regret not making more of an effort to get well outside of this city....

Now whatever preparations I might make, the whole house would likely come down on me in a major exchange-- and I can't afford to bury a shelter in the backyard... and even if I did, what would I emerge for, afterward?

I hope Putin is "as sane" as the subject of the OP seems to believe.
( https://democraticunderground.com/100216442875 )

I re-watched "The Day After" a few days ago...

[live love laugh]

1. Suicidal my ass. Narcissists don't commit suicide.

[Calculating]

2. They love themselves way too much

Everything is always someone else's fault.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Yes. Putin is building a $1,000,000,000 palatial estate. He has that to look forward to. nt

[Javaman]

4. A narcissist with cancer

Going for broke before he kicks off.

He cares nothing of the world; just his bizarre notion of what he thinks his place in history will be.

In his delusions, he honestly believes that he will be remembered as the leader that revived mother Russia.

Like I said, delusions of a steroid addled dying of cancer narcissist

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. Well, he can't 'revive mother Russia' if he engages "mutual assured destruction",

so his ambitions should temper any nuclear impulses, I will hope.

[blogslug]

5. I think Putin is, as the kids say...

all out of fucks.

How he got there doesn't matter so much as the fact that there he is.

[yagotme]

7. He can be as suicidal as he wants.

The sooner the better. I'm just worried about how much of the world he wants to drag along with him when he goes.