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Related: About this forumThe Crazy Mystical Impulses Sending Putin Wild in Ukraine
https://news.yahoo.com/crazy-mystical-impulses-sending-putin-031457591.htmlA. Craig Copetas
Sat, October 22, 2022 at 11:14 PM·7 min read
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty and Wikimedia Commons
If you suspect that Vladimir Putins decision-making process is above the creed of superstition and mythical creatures, you should know that there are psychologists, intelligence agency analysts and a jailed Yakutsk wizard out there who would beg to differ.
Putin and his entourage take the spirit world very seriously, says a Kremlin official who requested anonymity to ensure his security, navigating what some insiders maintain is the Russian presidents Twilight Zone. Its not a big leap of faith for a Russian to think Putin will do whats necessary to destroy anyone looking to exorcize the imaginary demons who they believe give him power.
The question is, do you believe that primal evil spirits, concocted to panic delusory serfs, have entranced the 70-year-old Putin into slaughtering Ukrainians and threatening nuclear war against the West?
Anna Moroz, whos spent a decade counseling Russian emigres mystified about how to accustom themselves to the Wests secular ways, is about as certain of it as any clinical psychologist can be under the circumstances. [snip]
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Good grief and LOL: Let's hear it for the shamans, profilers, and anthropologists of mystical creatures...
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The Crazy Mystical Impulses Sending Putin Wild in Ukraine (Original Post)
Backseat Driver
Oct 2022
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Srkdqltr
(7,618 posts)1. Absoult power corrupts absolutely.
He believes in his own power and he has been twisted by it. Shame he has taken his country and Ukraine with him .
yonder
(10,002 posts)2. Interesting read at the link
GreenWave
(9,077 posts)3. Hey dumbass! You are Vlad Putin NOT Rasputin!