Putin Surrounded By Yes Men And A Those Who Convey A Rosy Outlook.
Vladimir Putin is not getting the full story of Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine. (Washington Post)
“Putin’s advisers may be afraid to deliver bad news to a leader who has been willing to take increasingly extreme measures against people who dissent within the Russian system, U.S. intelligence officials said. One worrisome consequence, Pentagon officials said, was that negotiations underway between Russia and Ukraine to end the nearly five-week-old invasion could be undermined by misinformed expectations and directives from the Russian side.
“We have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership,” White House spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield told reporters. “We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth.””
Putin is not dealing with reality and cannot be trusted to act rationally. He has a Soviet superiority complex that is complicating his decision making which renders him a very dangerous person as the war in Ukraine drags on. Mr. Putin is obsessed with the downfall of the Soviet Union and the rise of American super power status in the last 30 years. These developments have created a myopic leader who can see nothing other than reassembling the old Mother Russia to its previous glory. He appears willing to stop at nothing.
