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PUTIN IS A SICK-SICK-SICK MAN

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From here: What makes Putin tick? Political scientist on how he makes decisions and if he would start a nuclear war

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Vladimir Putin is a man who has “no incentive in going backwards” - a political scientist gives insight into the Russian leader’s background and what he could do next

Vladimir Putin has been the Russian leader for nearly 22 years. He has long been a controversial figure, but he has now become a pariah in the eyes of the west, following his order to invade neighboring Ukraine. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has already seen Ukrainian civilians and Russian troops killed, thousands across the world protesting against the war, and severe economic sanctions imposed on Russia by Western nations.

All eyes are on the Russian President with fears of what he might do next and how far he will go.

National World spoke to Matt Qvortrup, a political scientist from Coventry University, to understand more about Vladimir Putin. What makes him tick, how does he make decisions, could he conceivably start a nuclear war and what can we expect over the coming days?

Taking a look back at Putin’s past and his background can help us to understand the man today. He was a KGB officer before entering Russian politics - the KGB was the Soviet Union’s main intelligence and security agency until it was dissolved in 1991.

“When he did his KGB training somebody mentioned his height - he didn’t take kindly to that and decided to get into a fight with this much larger man,” Professor Qvortrup said of Putin, who is 170cm tall.
He added: “He was beaten up and had to go to hospital. Putin had a broken arm.”

“As a result of all of this he was not sent to West Germany as a spy, he got an office job at the KGB in East Germany and it took him 10 years to be promoted from first lieutenant to captain.”

An event from his past such as goes some way to explaining his seemingly erratic decision making process today.
Professor Qvortrup said: “What makes him tick is a lot of vanity. He is a hot head, somebody who does not think ahead before he acts and sometimes has overestimated his own strengths.”

“We think he was someone who was bullied at school - we’ve got reports from his primary school teacher.”
He added: “Putin is of the same mindset as Franco was in Spain.

“He is vainglorious, cocky and a risk taker.”
 
Putin is a sick man? Tell us something we don't know.
 
Good Lord .
The Black Belt was beaten up by a midget

So believable , rofl ..
 
Actually, he is not a "pariah." Sadly!

The leaders of France and Germany and Israel have been talking with him as if he were a reasonable human being.

He isn't.

He obviously has no heart.

No decent world leader should recognize him as "president" of Russia.

A billion dollar reward should be offered for his detention and trial before a Nuremberg-style court.
 
Actually, he is not a "pariah." Sadly!

The leaders of France and Germany and Israel have been talking with him as if he were a reasonable human being.

He isn't.

He obviously has no heart.

No decent world leader should recognize him as "president" of Russia.

A billion dollar reward should be offered for his detention and trial before a Nuremberg-style court.

Only the French head-of-government has been in direct negotiations with Putin in Russia. Which is appropriate because France's president is also the head of the Council of the European Union.

That stopped when Russia invaded the Ukraine. Since then, the French military has been instructed to "support" Ukrainian army defenses. But the how-and-with-what have not been divulged ...
 
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Actually, he is not a "pariah." Sadly!

The leaders of France and Germany and Israel have been talking with him as if he were a reasonable human being. etc
First leader with a world presence for some time .

Treats Sleepy like the idiot he is .

Losers hate winners . Makes them feel so useless .
 
WHAT DOES ALL THIS UKRAINIAN-MESS MEAN?

The leaders of France and Germany and Israel have been talking with him as if he were a reasonable human being.

Putin is sick in the head (and has been for a long, long time). But he is also mistakenly the Head of the Russian government (by means of an election that he lost and finagled the count).

All that historical-shat is for the Russians to consider. The rest of the world has only one purview. Russia has illegally attacked a neighbor-nation and must pay the price.

The stoopidity of it all is that Pothead-Putin probably knew very well (if he attacked the Ukraine) that the astronomic amounts of money (plus interest) that enriched colossally the Russian-oligarchs was purloined from the previous Russian Communist government - and it would be seized by the US and Europe legally if possible! Which is what is happening.

It's as if the guy knew he was dying and wanted to take the illegal-fortunes with him. What the US and EU have seized (aside from the $1B yacht) will go to reparations for this war. Meaning they will be spent inevitably to reconstruct the Ukraine ...

PS: Word has it that Putin is more than just sick-in-the-head but is also dying physically. Time - as usual - will tell.
 
The Crony Capitalism Index:

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Do note that the US is also on that list at "17" ...
 
TIME WILL TELL

From the Economist: Russia's presidency - The beginning of the end of Putin

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Vladimir Putin will once again become Russia’s president. Even so, his time is running out.

THE point of elections is that their outcome should be uncertain. But everybody in Russia knows that Vladimir Putin, who is now prime minister, will be elected president on March 4th. This is not because he is overwhelmingly popular, but because his support will be supplemented by a potent mixture of vote-rigging and the debarring of all plausible alternative candidates.

The uncertainty will come after the election, not before. Developments in the past few months have shown that Mr Putin cannot rule his country indefinitely. The beginning of the end of his reign has begun (see article). Whether it is a good end or a bad one is up to him.

And like the first-time around, Putin will arrange for his winning of the vote.

But, as the article above mentions, this time around he's blown-it. Time will tell, it always does so ...
 

How to prosecute Putin - from here: Explainer: How could Russia's Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?

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HOW IS A WAR CRIME DEFINED?

The International Criminal Court in The Hague defines war crimes as "grave breaches" of the post-World War Two Geneva Conventions, agreements which lay out the international humanitarian laws to be followed in war time. Breaches include deliberately targeting civilians and attacking legitimate military targets where civilian casualties would be “excessive,” legal experts said.

Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russian forces of targeting civilians indiscriminately. Russia, which describes its invasion of on Ukraine as a "special operation," denies targeting civilians and says its goal is to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine, claims Kyiv and the West say are baseless.

The USSR ratified the Geneva Convention in 1954. Russia in 2019 revoked its recognition of one of the protocols, but remains a signatory to the rest of the agreements. The ICC, formed in 2002, is distinct from the International Court of Justice, a United Nations body that hears disputes between states.

HOW MIGHT A CASE PROCEED?

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, said this month he had opened an investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine.
 
A billion dollar reward should be offered for his detention and trial before a Nuremberg-style court.

Which will get us nowhere. The problem is that the entire Russian hierarchy is being run by the oligarchs. They "own" Russia - or so they think.

Who knows when that will change? When the oligarchs will have had their excess-funds presently at the exterior of Russia confiscated they might (then and only then) want to discuss an outcome for Russia. Meaning fair elections with fair election-results.

For the very first time in the history of Russia democracy could arrive in Russia. To the Russians who might not yet know the meaning of the word "liberty" unless it bit their collective arses .... !
 
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RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES

From here: Explainer: How could Russia's Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?

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U.S. President Joe Biden has publicly called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal, but legal experts said a prosecution of Putin or other Russian leaders would face high hurdles and could take years, as outlined below:

HOW IS A WAR CRIME DEFINED?

The International Criminal Court in The Hague defines war crimes as "grave breaches" of the post-World War Two Geneva Conventions, agreements which lay out the international humanitarian laws to be followed in war time. Breaches include deliberately targeting civilians and attacking legitimate military targets where civilian casualties would be “excessive,” legal experts said.

Ukraine and its Western allies accuse Russian forces of targeting civilians indiscriminately. Russia, which describes its invasion of on Ukraine as a "special operation," denies targeting civilians and says its goal is to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine, claims Kyiv and the West say are baseless.

The USSR ratified the Geneva Convention in 1954. Russia in 2019 revoked its recognition of one of the protocols, but remains a signatory to the rest of the agreements. The ICC, formed in 2002, is distinct from the International Court of Justice, a United Nations body that hears disputes between states.
 
Which will get us nowhere. The problem is that the entire Russian hierarchy is being run by the oligarchs. They "own" Russia - or so they think.

Who knows when that will change? When the oligarchs will have had their excess-funds presently at the exterior of Russia confiscated they might (then and only then) want to discuss an outcome for Russia. Meaning fair elections with fair election-results.

For the very first time in the history of Russia democracy could arrive in Russia. To the Russians who might not yet know the meaning of the word "liberty" unless it bit their collective arses .... !
Some people think that Russia is, well, hopeless when it comes to good government.

Even a stupid person like me has a general idea of Russia's history of misery.

Serfs and the czars; the Revolution stolen by the Reds; Stalin; now that war criminal and thug (as President Biden has rightly called him).

Back in the 18th or 19th century, some diplomat went to Russia and said something to the effect of "People get the government that they deserve." Translation? Maybe: A government is only as good or as bad as the character of its people.
 
Back in the 18th or 19th century, some diplomat went to Russia and said something to the effect of "People get the government that they deserve." Translation? Maybe: A government is only as good or as bad as the character of its people.

It's obvious that you have never lived under a Communist-regime. Russian did and they know what it's like. Meaning, they have a long, long way to go towards an open political system of diverse parties.

Aside from the fact that the Pigheaded People plundered the National Treasury that was left when Commmunism was stopped dead. Putin is one of them - he was the then President of Russia's right-hand-man.

They stole the mone-of-the-people and in any Western court of law today, they'd go quickly into jails.

But, Russia is Russia. Pitty the Russians for the political mess have ...
 
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