The Russian offensive launched by Vladimir Putin into Ukraine is called “madness” by many experts. A situation confirming the rumor that the head of the Kremlin will no longer be able to control his mind due to the treatment.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s attitude has become an object of special attention. The question arises: in recent months, has the head of the Russian state slowly but surely went crazy ?
Is his decision to invade Ukraine part of a plan that has been worked out over the years by a “reasonable” person? Opinions are divided, but the impressions left by Putin on some foreign leaders (Makron, Merkel, etc.), accompanied by persistent rumors about his conditiondo not leave indifferent.
Steroid treatment?
The latest hypothesis for today: according to Western spies, 69-year-old Vladimir Putin could be forced to undergo medical treatment steroids for cancer treatment. A “swollen” face, “increasingly erratic” behavior exacerbating social distancing confirm the rumors. According to the DailyMail, the Russian president will become a victim of a brain disorder caused by dementia, Parkinson’s disease or “steroid rage” as a result of possible treatment.
The world still remembers these images of the Russian leader at the other end of the table a few meters away facing Emmanuel Macron when he came in February, or standing exaggeratedly apart from his closest associates during the February 28 meeting.
Taken to the extreme with Covid precautions? Perhaps, according to Carol Grimaud Potter, a geopolitician who specializes in Russia: “The rumors about the state of Vladimir Putin’s health are not new, but his extreme fear of Covid can no longer be proven. And nothing fate, of course, arrived from Russia, on his true state of health, which could justify such caution. It’s paranoia.”
“He changed his face all the time”
Vladimir Fedorovsky, who will publish “Putin and Ukraine, Hidden Faces” on Monday, has known Vladimir Putin since the early 90s, he said, “that is, to expel and fire a whole population of corrupt lawyers, schemers and bribe takers who tried to get close” .
The ex-diplomat recalls: “When I met him, he was very unobtrusive. The key to his career was to first disguise himself as a sycophant. But I quickly realized that in the intelligence business, he hid his strength and constantly changed his face. according to the interlocutor. I also noticed that he copied my gestures a bit. Chirac later admitted to me that he also noticed this about him. He laughed a lot when he explained the reason to him: it was a technique of “pseudo-mimicry” taught in the special services in order to relax the interlocutor. They say that President Zelinsky is an actor, and in the case Putin is an extraordinary comedian.”
The only president cut off from everyone
Like many other details of his daily life: the employment of a taster, the refusal to purchase a smartphone (he announced this in 2018). The viral scene during which he humiliates his director of foreign intelligence, with all these elements, helps to perpetuate the image of an isolated president, alone in his palace, cut off from the world.
Memories of the Arab Spring and images of the remains of ousted President Gaddafi haunt a Kremlin resident convinced that the West and the US have wanted to overthrow the Russian regime for years. This Wednesday, March 16, he reiterated his distrust of the West.
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the West will fail in what he called attempt at world domination and the dismemberment of Russia. If the West, which has imposed tough sanctions on Moscow, thinks Russia will back down, it’s because it doesn’t understand Russia, Vladimir Putin said on the 21st day of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. “Behind the hypocritical words and actions taken today by the so-called collective West, there are hostile geopolitical goals. They simply do not need a strong, sovereign Russia,” he said.
“Closed, paranoid and unpredictable”
“According to Putin, the threat can also come from within,” supports Carol Grimaud Potter. Which isolates him even more. “This is someone from withdrawn, paranoid, unpredictablebut more than crazy i would say irrationality“, explains Segey Zhirnov, former KGB spywho rejects the image of the great strategist that others would like him to embody: “What he drives is a matter of suicide. I heard that Putin was a great chess player. It is not true.”
For Carole Grimaud Potter, however, her strategy is based on a certain logic: “His attack might have seemed very sudden even to the Russian intelligentsia, but it corresponds to his vision of geopolitics, which includes this restoration of influence, which in a sense would restore the influence of Russia. At least that’s how he hears it. It should be remembered that Russia has never radiated otherwise than in the imperialist way. The hypothesis of medical insanity would then be ruled out. What remains is the madness of war, which is quite real.