(03-01-2022, 01:24 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(03-01-2022, 12:48 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: People (and the media) keep freaking out about Putin going nuclear but does anyone really believe the man would opt for mutually assured destruction? Because that's what would happen. Unless he is legit having a mental breakdown and should be "Baker Acted" (look it up if you don't know what it means) I don't see him committing suicide because that's what he would be doing. Unless he does want to die and is too much of a puss to do himself in and wants to take his whole country with him.

I wish the nuclear rhetoric would calm down and the media stop speculating and start reporting what is actually happening. There are people truly terrified Putin is going to go full stupid.

Also, it's nuCLEAR, not nuCULAR. A pet peeve but it drives me nuts.

Honestly, yes I do. Unlike you and me, Putin thinks differently. We allow checks and balances within our system to keep maniacs from causing international crisis'. Russia does not. Putin surrounds himself with "yes men" and never hears that he is wrong in any way. This can lead very powerful men to believe they are invincible. He will do anything not to appear weak. He doesn't care about human lives, be it Ukrainian lives or the lives of his own people. He just cares about his own power, so if he has to nuke someone to show his own power, he could care less if that means the ultimate destruction of himself and his own country. In his warped mind, it may be better off to go out with ultimate power, rather than to live and admit defeat.  

I believe very much that he may have suffered a breakdown, because I keep reading reports that people around him are saying he's being different and very erratic. With that said, their power system doesn't have a "Baker Act" type of thing. It would basically take a coup to overthrow him. With his history of human rights abuses, that would be a risky act, because if that happened and it failed, those who staged the coup would most assuredly be executed. It's gonna take 1 of 2 things for this to end. Some covert action will have to be taken by an outside country or within the Russian government to assassinate him or power will have to be taken from him via a coup within Russia. I don't see Putin ever backing down, because he is not thinking rationally and he's evil. If he loses power, he loses everything. Therefore every option is on the table.