PDS: Putin Derangement Syndrome

                 What??? You don't think Putin is a 3D chess god?

I try to remain above the fray... and open to new ideas. For example: I once actually believed Trump WAS anti-establishment. Well, he did say lots of anti-establishment things. But reality has a way of kicking in our doors and before too long it became apparent to me that while Trump was many words, "anti-establishment" wasn't one of them. So, I admitted my mistake, cast off my Trump Delusion Syndrome, and soldiered on. Sadder but wiser.

I actually learned from that mistake. Most, or at least a great many people, don't learn from their mistakes. Even hard experience teaches them nothing. I think the MAGA Trumpies are like that. The Donald could pee in a mug in front of them, tell them it was Heineken's, and they'd slurp it down. All the while commenting on how delicious it was, while Trump smiled on benignly. Trumpies are essentially liberals themselves, but their throw switch is another color.

We often see this strange phenomenon in mankind. Some people just have to have a hero to venerate: Alexander, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Trump, Putin.... At least Alexander, Caesar, Genghis and Napoleon could claim some justification for their adoration. The others? Not so much. Though Trump DID drain the swamp... straight into the Oval Office!!! Prove me wrong.

We see this with respect to Vladimir Putin. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary his fans continue to see Putin as some kind of 3D chess god. And they become very lively when you tell them otherwise.

There are a lot of them too. They may even be people who have awakened to the Trump grift. They'll admit how the Tribe controls both American political parties, has infiltrated governments and installed corrupt politicians all over our wonderful world, are working hard to censor oppositional points of view, and that infiltration, subversion, perversion, corruption and destruction are the touchstones for what they do and what they have always done. And that they're damn good at it.

Putinites will happily attack Bojo, Macron, Bush, Clinton, etc, etc, etc. as disgusting Jew stooges. Anyone that is, except Vladimir Vladimirovich. For some reason VV gets a full pardon.

I agree that VV seems to be giving the Cabal a hard time. Yes, he seems to be doing that. But is he really? And is he really a 3D chess god... waiting for the right moment to spring his great checkmate upon corrupt NATO?

The scores of thousands of Russian soldiers who've been killed and maimed in the Slow Motion Operation might think differently. That $300,000,000,000 foolishly left on deposit in the US Federal Reserve is an argument to the contrary. The West's destruction of Russia's highly expensive ($11,000,000,000) Nord Stream Pipelines Project, and subsequent inaction, might warrant more than a "Putin's da man!" from inquiring minds.

Then there's Putin green-lighting NATO's crimes against Libya. Doing nothing for long years whilst NATO fomented a revolution in a friendly country right next door to his own - and then turned it into a hostile military monster. His green-lighting of draconian Covid protocols in Russia. His inaction in the face of countless Ukrainian provocations prior to the war: stealing Russian oil and natural gas, building bio-weapons facilities right on the border with Russia. Building up the second largest army in Europe on Russia's doorstep. No mere mortal would have tolerated that. But then Putin is no mere mortal according to his evangelists.

Then there's the odd story of Russia continuing to sell Russia's oil and gas to the same NATO countries that were sanctioning it and arming Ukraine to the teeth with men and materiel. And Putin all the while calling them "our Western partners."

And let's not forget the Crocus City Hall attack - which the Russians had been forewarned about. The fact that two and a half plus years in and Ukraine is still shelling Donetsk. The recent, humiliating invasion of Russia by Ukraine and where, one month later, the Ukrainians show no intention of leaving or of being made to leave.

Putin's fans want to believe that although politicians are naturally liars, thieves and traitors, somehow Putin is immune to all of it. Even though he left his wife for a young gymnast (whom he still hasn't married) they still think he is a good man. An honest man! And that in the sewer that is modern politics, only Putin rises above it all... Roc-like!... unbowed, unstained and unstinking.

The Russo-Ukraine war could have been wrapped up quickly using only two simple strategies: 1. Crashing Ukraine's power grid. 2. Destroying the bridges crossing the Dniepr. Game, Russia! The fact that it hasn't been done raises troubling questions.

Today as always the need for speed is essential in warfare: “The reason I beat the Austrians (at Jena) is they did not know the value of five minutes.” - Napoleon

“Speed is the essence of war." - Sun Tzu

"The second principle is this: act with the utmost speed [every unnecessary expenditure of time and every unnecessary detour is a waste of strength; take the shortest possible road to the goal]." - Von Clausewitz

In their leisurely Ukrainian holiday Russia is playing a dangerous game. They will probably still win, in another twenty years or so, but at a significant cost to themselves and the future of Russia... because Russia doesn't know the value of five minutes.

His fan club doesn't want to hear this, but something's not right in Putinville. His inaction in the face of great provocations to his country can easily be argued not as a sign of inner strength, but more probably as a sign of ineptitude - or even cowardice. Perhaps he really is part Jewish as some are claiming, and is secretly and traitorously in league with the Tribe.

Fitz