Continuing the discussion from Drill Baby Drill…the US Politics Thread (Part 3):
Pundits and statesmen are taking for granted that Putin himself is all there upstairs.
The reality is that he is a cold-blooded killer, who from a lowly KGB agent became a dictator, by moving aside by any means necessary anyone who was above him in the food chain. The 2.5 decades of absolute rule that followed and the isolation during Covid did nothing but foster his delusions of imperial grandeur.
In other words, he is far from being as normal and as down to earth as some would have you believe.