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mainer

(12,581 posts)
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:10 PM Feb 2022

Is Putin exhibiting "'roid rage"?

If rumors are true and he’s taking steroids, then he’s suffering megalomaniacal side effects and is not to be reasoned with. He’s crazy. This is how nuclear wars start. Sane Russians need to prevent him from pressing the nuclear button.

https://dailyindia.net/russia-ukraine-row-german-broadcasters-big-claim-putin-is-suffering-from-serious-illness-takes-heavy-steroids/127573/

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Mosby

(19,491 posts)
1. Very poorly written and probably not true.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:14 PM
Feb 2022

But I love it. We all know he's a psycho.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. Putin's a narcissist. That's in his DNA, not something that just occurred by illness or meds.
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:17 PM
Feb 2022

Here: The narcissism driving the likes of Putin, Trump etc.
Helps to look at Putin's actions thru this lens.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216391444
The HoarseWhisperer on Putin's narcissism

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
5. There's a rumor out that he's sick and doesn't have much time left so he's moving...
Thu Feb 24, 2022, 01:45 PM
Feb 2022

now to bring Ukraine back into Russian control where he thinks it belongs, no matter what the Ukrainians think.

He's such a throwback to the Brezhnev, Kruschchevs and Stalins of the old Soviet Union, but even Brezhnev reached detente with the west. Putin has broken it.

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