His over indulgence in steroids might have amplified his isolation, paranoia and what appears to be his Stalinist mentality. If the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree Putin hasn’t come very far from being the KGB officer he was trained to be. Perhaps we are witnessing the frog, the scorpion and it’s simply his nature. The view of Putin with his advisors seperated at the ends of a very, very long table suggests he didn’t come to listen.

“Right now, I frankly do not see how anybody can get through to Putin,” said Vaira Vike-Freiberga, a former president of Latvia who met with her Russian counterpart repeatedly. “He is so dead set on rewriting history … he has invented a parallel universe in which he lives mentally.”

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