It’s just palace noises. Since the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, there have been many rumors about alleged deterioration in the health of Vladimir Putin. But since Sunday, March 13, new elements have questioned the mental state of the 69-year-old Russian leader.
The British daily newspaper The Daily Mail does suggest, based on an analysis by an alliance of foreign intelligence services (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States), that the Russian president may well have suffered from a “brain disorder caused by dementia”. , Parkinson’s disease” or even “steroid rage” (steroid rage) resulting from steroid treatment for cancer.
To arrive at what remains here only a hypothesis, this Anglo-Saxon intelligence community relies on “increasingly erratic behavior” Vladimir Putin recently, to the distancing of all his interlocutors in the Kremlin, as well as to his “puffed out” face, observed during these recent public appearances.
In early March, on the air of the BBC, former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen already suggested that the owner of the Kremlin could be “addicted to steroids” which has the side effect of “awakening aggression”. “I think his immune system is either weakened by the corticosteroids (note: anti-inflammatory steroids) he’s given for another disease, or the steroids you give to weightlifting and weightlifting people.”
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Rumors through the years
Rumors about the health of the Russian president have been circulating for several years. In November 2020, the regime’s political opponent Valery Solovey warned in the British tabloid The Sun that Vladimir Putin would be treated for cancer and even undergo surgery. The accusations are strongly denied by Moscow.
However, observers acknowledge that the Russian president’s attitude and mentality have changed in recent years to the point where his current state of mind is increasingly questionable. Why accelerate this conflict in Ukraine? During a meeting in early February, the French president himself said he considered his colleague “cooler and more isolated.” In any case, these rumors are enough to further fuel the alleged “paranoia” of the Russian leader, especially in the Kremlin itself.
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