Putin Has Offered His Exit Strategy to the World
As I stared out the window of the train this evening, I tried to imagine myself in Putin’s place. I asked myself, what does he really want?
I asked myself, does he really want the end the world with nuclear war?
I am going to answer for Vladimir Putin. No. He does not want to end it.
Putin is clinging to power because he wants to live as long as possible. If Russia is destroyed by U.S. missiles, then Putin loses what he loves the most — being a beloved and untouchable czar surrounded by millions of sycophants.
As I recently wrote in “Deconstructing Putin,” Vladimir Putin is addicted to their love and so, at this moment, to regain some of the lost mystery of his all-knowing guidance, he is letting them guide him a bit.
The extreme sycophants on the political talk shows demanded mobilization and he gave them a “partial” version. Now, those, weakling shitheads are demanding nuclear war but Putin won’t give them that unless we in the West force him into it.
The thing is, tyrants like Putin, and authoritarian wannabes like Trump, are actually very cowardly people and they fear more than anything death and pain. Paranoia overtakes their thoughts…
