Sean Penn, on the ground in Ukraine, says Putin has made a horrible mistake for all of humankind

[Backseat Driver]

44. NASH, sometimes as unsymptomatic as early pancreatic cancer,

from liver cirrhosis/cancer causes HE (hepatic encephalopathy) a neurologic symptom of toxic inflammatory brain disease that causes acute personality changes, et al other changes in consciousness and judgment. Some claim it's reversible - not sure...I think my brother died in a hospice last year of both.

Treating one would make the other worse; no chance of fulfilling a long-held fantasy of returning the borders of a romanticized tzarist country. So why wait? Putin's dad, conscripted into the Russian navy and continuing in the army, wasn't like home much.

Perhaps he sat on grandpa's knee and heard tales from when Gramps was Lenin's and Stalin's personal cook, sputtering genocidal plans for the Holodemor, while being served up the richest of Russian's foods. No matter, tyrants who do these deeds are not often praised in what remains of the historical record of humanity.