Inside Vladimir Putin’s head…

Putin is a pure product of the USSR and certainly was one to lament its demise. Ever since he acceded to power, his goal has been to return his country to its former dominant figure. 

Sochi Olympic Games were a first display of that pursuit and it went on with messing around with Russia’s satellite countries like Georgia and Ukraine among other. 

Sitting on 7,000 nuclear warheads also gives Putin some bragging rights that force the world’s attention on his person and allow him to “bluff” as he says he’s not doing. 

When he recently asserted that “he wasn’t bluffing”, the entire world read that he was indeed bluffing, but who is to say what may go into his head if he feel cornered, humiliated or God forbid, about to get vanquished? 

This might lead the small man to despair and push him into making desperate choices in opting for a final solution, at least as far as the planet’s northern hemisphere is concerned. Would he care about his family and children, young and old? 

Probably no, the guy remains set on “KGB mode”, namely without principles nor human conscience. I’ve heard of a mother jumping to her death from a cliff holding her two kids in each arm, so some people prefer death over have their offspring seeing their parent failing. 

Never, have I suggested that the Russian dictator is crazy, but he’s irrational, unpredictable and therefore dangerous and this is why geopolitics have never scared me so much in my entire life...