Putin crede davvero di essere vittima della sua stessa guerra?

Who gives a shit? If he truly believes it, the effects are the same. The dead will not regain their lost lives. I couldn’t give less of a shit if a criminal believes he’s in the right.

What Putin does or doesn’t believe does. Not. Matter.

He needs to lose this war, and he needs to lose it *soon*.

Authoritarians and dictatorships all have a major vital flaw: they huff and puff too much of their own kool-aid propaganda and starting to believe their delusional worldview.

Putin truly believed he could take Ukraine in 3 days for example.

Same old same old.

As someone who grew up in a post-soviet country I can wholeheartedly attest that not only Putin, but a lot of Russians feel like victims despite living around people who have been victimised by *them* for *half a century*. I don’t know how or why, but there is zero accountability present when you confront Russians (a majority, from my limited experience. But I have not talked to every single Russian alive, so take it as my personal opinion) with a long list of Soviet/Russian empire crimes. They will say “Russia is not USSR”, but then turn around and erect monuments to and name war ships after soviet generals unironically seeing zero flaws in that logic.

They *feel* they should be a great and respected country, but the inability to achieve it morphs into hatred as soon as anyone around them starts showing signs of progression compared to them. This is literally the childish “if I can’t have it – I will break it so no one has it” behaviour but with tanks and nukes.

They were never held accountable for atrocities they’ve committed and we are now witnessing the consequences. That’s why they needed to lose the war in Ukraine like 2 years ago. But here we are.

Probably some .. i mean stalin was also crazy.. most dictators are crazy.. you also must be.. because these ppl go to bed knowing they juist killed hundreds of ppl daily so they can rule an extra piece of land like a tyrant..

He is just a piec of sh*t.

It’s Russian culture, invade a neighbour, murdering left and right, then complain their great mission of liberating the neighbour from themselves was misunderstood and how they are falsely accused of being a bad guy. Putin is the epitome of Russian culture.

Yes.
Ruskies are victim, and everyone who is against them (defenders) are nazis

Kill Putin.

If someone told you the sky was pink would you believe them?

No he does not. He is ex KGB agent. For him and in Russia in general, truth is subjective. Truth is whatever Kremlin says that is, say or believe different and you are on a list.

He’s delusional so that may very well be true to him. He must be stopped at all cost ASAP.

of course he doesnt, he isnt an idiot, he’s just a liar and a gaslighter, BUT he understands that if you can fool enough people with a lie that is big enough and gratuitous enough then numbers and momentum count for a lot . . . unfortunately he’s right

Jesus fucking Christ with these news articles. This is not fucking news so stfu

Putin comes from the world of the KGB. Of secret services, intelligence services and all that.

You need to understand that’s a really bad mindset to have, and applying it on a macro scale, at the level of russia, is disastrous.

In that world, every single thing is a conspiracy. Behind every little thing there’s someone else. Everything has an ulterior motive.

Imagine that paranoid conspiracy theorist we all laugh at because he thinks there are microchips in the vaccines, jews run the world (remember who started this rumor?), and all the craziest stuff? That’s how these people are.

They can’t utterly conceive people don’t give a crap about anything more than their family and having a good enough financial situation to live a good life. Everything is geopolitical, everything is double ended, if someone wins, someone else for sure loses.

This is how these people view the world. They can’t conceive eastern europe wanted to leave the russian system: they must have been fooled and manipulated by the west.

They can’t conceive the only reason people want to join the EU is simply money (EU is at least honest enough to accept this), they think it’s all some grand scheme that somehow will end up disadvantageous to russia, even if nobody cares.

Putin is wearing full bulletproof vests in public. There’s no other dictator on the planet, that may be way more hated than he is, that does this. He does.

If you start believing ANYthing he says it means he is winning.