I’m no psychologist, but I doubt Putin is diagnosable. He’s likely no more narcissistic or sociopathic than most U.S. presidents. Like them, he uses federal agents to harass, arrest and imprison dissidents, though Putin lately does it on a much larger scale. He assassinates enemies in foreign nations, like they do, and undertakes wars of aggression (re-defined as defensive or humanitarian) that kill large numbers of civilians, just like they have. The U.S. body count in the more than 20 years since Putin came to power exceeds Russia’s by orders of magnitude, though with the war against Ukraine, he’s quickly catching up. More
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