Putin X-rayed. But who is he really: a dangerous madman or an evil genius?
Analysts and the surrounding area have tried to understand this. Here are the points that frame it best.
1) Ruthless. In order to achieve the goal he has set himself, he does not look anyone in the face. His order to bomb schools and kindergartens is also his. To begin with.
2) SCAM. He knows well the “maskirovka”, that is the manual of tricks and deceptions. Making yourself think insane is part of the camouflage. Better than Stalin and Khrudchev, two masters who seemed unattainable.
3) BRAVE He knows he cannot win a war against NATO. He is a judo champion, so he knows the art of using the aggressor’s strength to turn it against him.
4) CALCULATOR. Art refined with the game of chess. Masters usually prefer to play black and leave the opening move to the opponent. Putin, on the other hand, prefers to play with white. He opens the game, exploits the surprise and calculates the reaction very well. Crimea took it like this.
5) AMBITIOUS. He entered politics to go down in history. He will come out of it when he has repaired the damage of the dismemberment of the USSR.
6) STRATEGY. He was an officer of the KGB, he was the commander of the Dresden office. He has become an expert on military strategy. He knows how to field shrewd and cunning solutions. His action plans never fail. But there is always a first time.
7) HAZARDOUS. Putin is inclined to expose himself to danger. And the invasion of Ukraine is still a risky act. Ukrainians are historically anti-Russian. In the 1930s Stalin made it big (euphemism): he exterminated 4 million Ukrainians by starvation and deported 8 million. That is why Ukraine supplied entire units to the Nazi Wehrmacht during the Second World War. If they turn to guerilla warfare, these lands could become another Afghanistan.
8) LIAR. Typical. Perhaps inevitable, given the circumstances. At 05.51 on Thursday 24th she said: “No, it’s not an occupation“. Three hours later he corrected himself: “It’s a special operation“. And on with the wagons, vehicles, “pincer” troops. From Belarus, from Crimea, from the route that connects the Russian border to the city of Kharkov (the second largest city in the country by population). A premeditated invasion, indeed.
9) VENDICATIVE: Being susceptible and acrimonious, he is prone to revenge. Example? August 2018. The Russian military machine moves against Georgia (former Soviet republic, half in the Caucasus Mountains, half in the Black Sea), in support – there too – of the separatist governments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two provinces with large Russian-speaking populations . He actually wanted to punish Georgia for flirting with the US and the Atlantic Alliance.
10) THREATENING. More: disturbing, dangerous. Ergo fearful because intimidating. And because it usually does what he says. He is threatening “unseen consequences” for those who interfere with his plan. That is, beheading the Kiev government. And install a puppet government.
