Putin Isn't Just Insane. It's Far Worse Than That.

[Zorro]

Glimpses into Putin’s inner sanctum offer horrifying clues about the state of mind of the man with his finger on the nuclear button.

The subject is Putin’s brain.

Is President Putin clinically insane? Is he choreographing madness and threats of a nuclear holocaust to frighten the West? Or does Putin know precisely what he’s doing? The questions are reasonable, but ultimately unanswerable. There is a data point, however: Russian and German scientists at Moscow’s aptly named Research Institute of the Brain in 1925 sliced and diced 30,953 sections of Vladimir Lenin’s cytoarchitecture for indications of genius.

The results of that research remain a mystery, as does a solution to the enigma of whether the heir to Lenin’s throne—one Vladimir Putin—believes his own hype or is experiencing buyer’s remorse over an invasion that caught the rest of the Kremlin unawares.

Sadly, work has not yet begun dissecting Putin’s cerebrum for clues.

Short of delving inside his mind, Fiona Hill, the former senior director for Europe and Russia on the U.S. National Security Council during the Trump administration, did a splendid job of purifying Putin’s sense and sensibility in a recent interview. “Putin is increasingly operating emotionally,” she told Politico. “It’s reestablishing dominance over what Russia sees as the Russian Imperium. We’re treading back through old historical patterns that we said that we would never permit to happen again.”

Rewind about 150 years and you will hear a familiar refrain from Russia’s imperial Romanov family, who spent 300 years brutally persuading their subjects to back endless wars. “If the West is cursing Russia, Russia is doing something right,” blustered the multi-titled Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-isnt-just-insane-he-thinks-hes-gods-man-on-earth

[Chainfire]

1. I would recommend an immediate post mortem.

This question needs an answer.

[SheltieLover]

2. Agreed!

[mopinko]

3. tdfg too.

i'm not kidding about that. i'm guessing his records at reed are secret for a reason.
but when he dies, i want the full autopsy on the front page of every paper in the bloody world.

humanity really has to grapple w this. our reluctance to give these monsters 'an excuse' is preventing a robust discussion and understanding that could save the world further such catastrophes.

[Chainfire]

4. I think that we can infer an answer.

As long as we have recorded history, madmen have attained high positions of power. The simple explanation is that they are, in medical terms, "crazy as a bedbug."

It takes a dirty, rotten bastard to want to be a dictator. (as we have found out recently)

[Turbineguy]

5. Putin needs

to have his brain removed for examination.

[orwell]

6. There are some similarities...

...to the Dugin/Putin philosophy that are echoed in the philosophy and tactics of the CONs, the far right, and the evangelical movement.

That is why they support the war criminal.

Bird's of a feather...

[slightlv]

7. There were earlier studies, not involving the brain

that showed the most violent criminals carried a double "Y" gene. I think I'm remembering that correctly... it was many years ago. It would be interesting to know if the same holds true for dictators, as well. That's something we could actually test for while they're still alive and kicking... and possibly be a denial of office factor.

[Alwaysna]

8. I believe his cheese slid off the cracker.