"He's Gone Mad": Putin Purges His Inner Circle As He Grows Extremely Paranoid - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

Over the past few years, a disturbing pattern has emerged at the very top of Russia’s power structure. Senior officials, ministers, billionaires, generals, and Kremlin insiders are vanishing, dying under suspicious circumstances, or being quietly erased from public life. Official explanations never change: accidents, illness, stress, personal despair. But the sheer number of cases makes coincidence impossible to ignore. This video breaks down why Vladimir Putin’s inner circle is shrinking, why loyalty no longer guarantees safety, and how Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed the Kremlin into a new phase of extreme paranoia. From the sudden removal and death of transport minister Roman Starovoyt to a wider wave of disappearances across defense, energy, transport, and finance sectors, this story is not about isolated tragedies. It is about a system built on personal trust, fear, and silence, where failure is unforgivable and becoming a liability can be fatal.

As the war drags on, corruption, missing funds, failed projects, and battlefield embarrassments create paper trails that Putin’s system cannot tolerate. Trials create records. Records create questions. Questions create threats. Instead of accountability, the Kremlin chooses erasure. Powerful figures fall from windows, collapse during meetings, or suffer sudden “health crises,” while the state media repeats the same empty phrases. Ambition inside the elite has been replaced by fear. Standing out is dangerous. Success attracts attention. Attention brings risk. And risk, in today’s Russia, can mean elimination.

This video explains how Putin’s leadership has shifted from control to suspicion, how even longtime loyalists and trusted allies are no longer untouchable, and why the Kremlin now relies on discipline through fear rather than authority. As Putin trusts fewer people and listens to fewer voices, the system he built is beginning to consume itself. Loyalty only delays danger. Visibility becomes a threat. And the message to everyone still inside the Kremlin is brutally clear: you are safe only until you are not.

[Marcuse]

1. This could happen here. Congressional cowards. Slippery slope.