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by rizkeyz 1572 days ago
My predication, for the record: Putin is mad, old, and he certainly would not care to die these days looking outside the window into a sea of mushroom clouds. I'm virtually certain that he had at least one dream about this in his sleep - maybe long time ago, in the '80s.

So he is mad, surrounded by yes-man with a populace that is used to being lied to all the time, used to the feeling that they know more than what is allowed to say publicly, you can read The Master and Margarita, written about hundred years ago, that describes this same exact feeling.

Ukrainians, in an act of fatal heroism will fight; all that gets bloody. Kiev stands; Russians will try to starve the city to death; won't let any humanitarian help into the city; West will try to not lose their cool about the atrocities; but then something happens; some image that just surpasses the cruel picture of war we already have; people in West will demand justice; it will be hard to be bystanders when millions of lives are at stakes so obviously. That will be on a Friday. On Sunday, we defconned our way back to the stone age; world population will be back to 500M to 1B within this year.

And a new world will be born.

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The Master and Margarita is possibly my favourite fiction book. It never leaves you.
Suuuch a great read.
My pet theory is that Putin has received a diagnosis of some kind. One that has made him accelerate the actualisation of his dreams of Soviet reunification.
Maybe he has the cancer he has used to kill so many others with.
Remember when he said he hasn't decided if he'll stand for re-election? [1]

Something is definitely not adding up.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-he-hasnt-dec...

He sees himself as more of an imperialist tsar, quite different in the Russian context.
Parkinson's
Can dementia be ruled out?

A demented dictator with nukes?

"If only there was some way to quickly solve carbon emissions, climate change, and the pandemic all at once."

Monkey's paw twists...