US intel agencies are debating whether Putin has lost mental faculties or is bluffing to unnerve the

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

West, report says

US intelligence agencies are urgently debating the possibility that President Vladimir Putin of Russia has lost touch with reality, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The report followed a series of seemingly erratic public performances by the Russian leader, with the debate gaining a new intensity after he increased Russia's level of nuclear readiness on Sunday.

Last week, Putin in a televised national security council meeting humiliated and berated his foreign intelligence chief, Sergey Naryshkin.

Later, in a paranoid and grievance-filled speech broadcast moments before the launch of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last week, he sought to rewrite history by denying that Ukraine exists as an independent country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-intel-agencies-are-debating-whether-putin-has-lost-mental-faculties-or-is-bluffing-to-unnerve-the-west-report-says/ar-AAUpy7i

[C_U_L8R]

1. The puffiness and blotchiness is not an act.

He could be loaded up on steroids and experiencing mania.

[Jarqui]

2. This tweet rattled me (as it was probably designed to do ..)

Link to tweet

Guy Chazan
@GuyChazan
Absolutely chilling. This is Russian state TV: "Our subs can launch more than 500 nuclear missiles which are guaranteed to destroy the US and all the rest of Nato into the bargain. The principle is: "why do we need the world if there is no Russia in it?"

[herding cats]

3. Russia is still there last I checked?

They were limping along just fine as a nation before their dictator decided to invade a bordering democratic nation unprovoked.

Why do we need a world if it is ruled by our fear of brutal dictators and the deadly weapons they hold?

[Jarqui]

5. Yes, Russia is still there limping along

But Russia doesn't have their finger on the button.

The world is here regardless. It doesn't need us. We need it.

About the only ones who "need a world ... ruled by our fear of brutal dictators and the deadly weapons they hold" are the dictators.

[herding cats]

4. So, he's puffy and aging and trying to play the dementia hand to scare the world into submission?

How pathetic and weak is that?