Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, Western media have depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin as an irrational—perhaps mentally ill—leader who cannot be reasoned or bargained with. Such portrayals have only intensified as the Ukraine crisis came to dominate the news agenda.
The implications underlying these media debates and speculations about Putin’s psyche are immense. If one believes that Putin is a “madman,” the implication is that meaningful diplomatic negotiations with Russia are impossible, pushing military options to the forefront as the means of resolving the Ukraine situation.
If Putin is not a rational actor, the implication is that no kind of diplomacy could have prevented the Russian invasion, and therefore no other country besides Russia shares blame for ongoing violence. (See FAIR.org, 3/4/22.) Yet another implication is that if Putin’s defects made Russia’s invasion unavoidable, then regime change may be necessary to resolve the conflict.
‘Increasingly insane’
Western media have for years been debating whether Putin is insane (Extra!, 5/14; FAIR.org, 2/12/15) or merely pretending to be—speculation that has only intensified in recent weeks:
- Guardian (2/24/22): “Decision to Invade Ukraine Raises Questions Over Putin’s ‘Sense of Reality’”
- Daily Beast (3/1/22): “The Russian People May Be Starting to Think Putin Is Insane”
- Vanity Fair (3/1/22): “Report: An ‘Increasingly Frustrated’ Putin, a Madman With Nuclear Weapons, Is Lashing Out at His Inner Circle”
- New York (3/4/22): “Putin’s War Looks Increasingly Insane”
Guardian (2/24/22) : “A member of the European parliament for Macron’s grouping told France Inter radio…he thought Putin had gone mad.”
The Guardian report (2/24/22) cited concerns raised in European official circles about Putin’s mental state:
They worry about a 69-year-old man whose tendency towards insularity has been amplified by his precautions against Covid, leaving him surrounded by an ever-shrinking coterie of fearful obedient courtiers. He appears increasingly uncoupled from the contemporary world, preferring to burrow deep into history and a personal quest for greatness.
Even when other media analysts argued that Putin’s alleged mental illness was merely a ruse to wrest concessions from the west, this was not presented as a rationale for negotiating with him, but rather as a reason to reject de-escalation and diplomacy. Forbes (3/1/22) claimed that although Putin is “obviously capable of massive errors in judgment,” that doesn’t necessarily mean that “he’s lost his marbles,” as Putin has only “gotten this far by being calculating and cunning.” Forbes‘ Michael Krepon went on to explain that the “mad man theory only works when the threatener is convincingly mad,” and that Western countries should proceed to call Putin’s bluff: “Help Ukrainians with military, economic and humanitarian assistance,” he urged, rather than pursuing diplomatic negotiations with Russia.
‘Detached from reality’
Daily Beast (3/1/22): “There is a lot of talk in the West about Russian President Vladimir Putin being mentally unhinged.”
In the Daily Beast (3/1/22), Amy Knight, a historian of Russia and the USSR, displayed a remarkable ability to read Putin’s mind, discerning the real motivations of someone she describes as possibly “detached from reality.” She attributed Putin’s decision to invade to a feeling of insecurity over his “hold on power,” because he “knows that he was not democratically elected to the presidency in 2018, or even in 2012, because serious contenders were barred from participating.”
This alleged feeling of “insecurity” has apparently driven Putin to hate “democratic states on his country’s border,” because he doesn’t “want his people to get ideas.” Knight claimed that all Putin’s rhetoric about “the West destroying Russian values and NATO threatening Russia with nuclear weapons” merely “camouflages his intense fear of democratic aspirations in his own country.” Strangely, although Knight speculates about Putin’s possible insanity, she also provides largely rational explanations for Putin’s actions, because if a leader is afraid they weren’t legitimately elected, they might opt to launch a war to generate a “rally ’round the flag” effect, as George W. Bush did. This undermines the suggestion that Putin is an irrational actor.
Knight suggested that Putin was more dangerous than Soviet leaders like Nikita Khrushchev or Joseph Stalin, or even Germany’s Adolf Hitler. Khrushchev, she wrote, was someone who wasn’t “consumed by the historical grudges and the need to show off his masculine credentials,” and “had to consider the views of fellow Politburo members” instead of making key decisions on his own, like Putin allegedly does.
One of Khrushchev’s decisions, jointly made or otherwise, was launching the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, which kept that country in the Warsaw Pact at the cost of several thousand lives. That invasion does not seem obviously different in kind from Putin’s attempt to keep Ukraine from leaving what Russia considers to be its sphere of influence.
‘Reason is not going to work’
Other Western media headlines offered quite specific, though varying, evaluations of Putin’s mental state from a distance. (This sometimes also happens with domestic figures like former President Donald Trump.) A few instances:
- Atlantic (4/15/14): “Vladimir Putin, Narcissist?”
- Independent (2/1/15): “President Putin Is a Dangerous Psychopath—Reason Is Not Going to Work With Him”
- USA Today (2/4/15): “Pentagon 2008 Study Claims Putin Has Asperger’s Syndrome”
- Sun (2/28/22): “Vladimir Putin Is Egocentric, Narcissistic & Exhibits Key Traits of a Psychopath”
- Fox News (3/2/22): “Russian President Vladimir Putin Has Features of a Psychopath: Expert”
These diagnoses from afar have been going on for a long time. In 2014, psychotherapist Joseph Burgo (Atlantic, 4/15/14) argued that “Putin may or may not be a clinical narcissist,” because it’s “impossible actually to diagnose the man at a distance.” Nevertheless, Burgo encouraged the US foreign policy establishment to assume he is a narcissist, in order to help “mitigate risk in the ways it deals with him.”
USA Today (2/4/15) quoted a Pentagon report: “Project neurologists confirm this research project’s earlier hypothesis that very early in life perhaps, even in utero, Putin suffered a huge hemispheric event to the left temporal lobe of the prefrontal cortex.”
In 2015, USA Today (2/4/15) reported on a 2008 study from a Pentagon think tank that theorized that Putin has Asperger’s syndrome, an “autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions.” It speculated that Putin’s “neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy,” although the report acknowledged that it couldn’t prove the theory because they weren’t able to conduct a brain scan on the Russian president.
The 2008 study was based on “movement pattern analysis,” essentially watching videos of Putin’s body movements to gain clues on how he makes decisions and reacts to events. Further reporting on the study (Guardian, 2/5/15) noted that the authors don’t claim to make a diagnosis, because that would be impossible based on so little evidence. The work was primarily inspired by Brenda Connors, a former State Department official, professional dancer and “movement patterns analysis” expert at the US Naval War College.
Psychologist Pete Etchells (Guardian, 2/7/15) mocked the Pentagon study because the methodology of using movement pattern analysis to diagnose Asperger’s syndrome is “so generic as to be meaningless,” and that trying to “figure out someone’s state of mind based solely on how they move is a hugely subjective endeavor, easily prone to misinterpretation.” He also noted that it is not possible to diagnose whether people are on the autism spectrum with brain scans.
Some writers (e.g., Guardian, 2/22/17; Daily Beast, 8/9/21) have criticized what is known as “Putinology”—the reduction of Russian politics to the analysis of incomplete, and occasionally false, information about Putin and his motives. It is a common Western media tactic to equate and reduce an entire country to its singular (and often caricatured) head of state, usually presented as a cartoon villain with sadistic and irrational motives, to justify further Western hostility towards those countries (Passage, 12/14/21; Extra!, 11–12/90, 4/91, 7–8/99).
‘Violation of ethical rules’
Some contemporary attempts to explain Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by psychoanalyzing Putin make sweeping judgments about his mental state, even while insisting that a professional diagnosis would be necessary to confirm their speculative perceptions of him.
Fox News‘ expert (3/2/22) is not violating ethical rules because when he refers to Putin as a “psychopath,” he’s not “diagnos[ing] a public figure who he has not personally examined,” but rather “assess[ing] Putin’s actions in the framework of a personality type.”
“He’s not crazy,” Cohen said. “He’s charming, calculated and manipulative. With psychopaths, you cannot develop a common understanding. You cannot have agreements with them. They really only respond to superior power, to a credible threat of force.”
Fox actually cited one other source, Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer for Russia, who noted that “other psychiatrists have evaluated Putin’s mental stability and concluded he is a typical authoritarian with no anomalies,” and that Putin’s actions “reflect Russian cultural norms and standards of behavior.” Koffler argued that the comparisons being made between Putin and figures like Stalin and Hitler are exaggerated, yet Fox only included Dr. Cohen’s pathologized opinion in its headline: “Russian President Vladimir Putin has Features of a Psychopath: Expert.”
Psychologist Emma Kenny claimed for the British tabloid Sun (2/26/22) that although she’s “unable to bring him to the consulting room for assessment,” she nevertheless feels comfortable making declarations like:
Putin continues to manufacture an “alpha male” persona. He is incredibly egocentric, and has a confidence and arrogance he does not try to hide…. Emotions such as guilt and shame do not seem to register with him—another key example of a potentially psychopathic nature.
As of this writing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken hasn’t attempted any conversations with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, while Russian military commanders are declining calls from the Pentagon, likely due to the US sharing military intelligence with the Ukrainian government. This silence on both the diplomatic and military fronts risks further escalation instead of a quick negotiated end to the war.
The Western media caricature of Putin as a psychopathic leader acting on irrational and idiosyncratic beliefs is a convenient propaganda narrative that excuses US officials from taking diplomacy seriously—at the expense of Ukrainian lives and nuclear brinkmanship (Antiwar.com, 3/10/22). Recent negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul were hailed by both parties as constructive, with Russia vowing to reduce military activity around Kyiv and northern Ukraine as a result (NPR, 3/29/22). It’s important not to let US officials subvert peace negotiations between the two parties on the evidence-free grounds that negotiations with Russia are pointless.
Thanks for a well written article documenting the fact that our own mass media is sometimes guilty of propagating misleading characterizations of foreign leaders. It is part of what Noam Chomsky has called “manufacturing consent”. It is reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, in which the state suddenly declares a mass “hate”, as we did when Trump did his massive pivot on China. It’s nothing new. But it’s dangerous. It allows the controllers of the media to manipulate public opinion to accept actions that should not be taken, that are not really in the public interest. Like our invasion of Iraq.
Why play along? Putin’s told what to do, just like whatever Neocon Blob Obama described, is trying to bog- down Russia, to save Albright’s fracked LNG/ oil export pyramid scheme (likely, FAR more dangerous than cranked-up Nazi thigs running wild with US anti-tank rockets & Stingers? It’s almost as if senile cold warriors are baiting war, so ol’ Joe, Kerry, Nancy & Mitt’s kids can just go back to skimming graft in their planet killing grift, for Oilgarchs of Ukraine AND Russia & Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela and Iran are simply indicative of what’s to ensue as “our” party fracks hundreds-of-thousands more wells (though any competition with Nord Stream II is ridiculous & fracked methane has likely ALREADY unleashed run-away AGW? And THAT is pretty insane!
Pretty amazing comment… for someone working at a Russian troll farm.
Would that mean there’s any specific element of their comment for which you have a direct rebuttal?
‘Bout the only thing I can disagree with is that this person somehow thinks Biden is in charge of anything at this point or capable of comprehending the situation given his diminished mental capacity. Nah, it’s the ‘younger’ neocon/neolib warmongers who are pushing for this conflict to become a Russian quagmire – on both sides of the so-called political aisle.
Good, then maybe you can translate the original comment into English.
Russian –> English translation:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I will help push in that stool:
Russians are killing UNIFORMED and Non Uniformed conscripted Ukrainian NAZIS who control the office and policy of Ukraine in Kiev.
Zelenski is a sockpuppet for the Azov Batllion: NAZIS
After GW Bush walked away from the Texas Air National Guard( no consequences either) Bush apparently decided he was Rambo—sadly he lied and lied and lied re; Iraq causing 9/11 . “Shock and Awe,” was an insane thing to do. Warring on the Middle East was also insane along with GW Bush covering up and refusing to show any coffins of the war dead I am sorry that Biden seems to be as whacked as Bush. Yes, all those who avoided Vietnam became rabid war lovers.
It is so difficult to believe US major media, and the news from Ukraine and Biden. Oh and although what the US and the UK did in WW 2 to Dresden—-is truly horrific. , If Putin is a war criminal, then so are Bush, and Obama and guess what—you too. It would seem , Joe , that 8 years of murdering people in Yemen and 74 years in helping to kill Palestinians—isn’t that enough?
Why resort to false equivalence by comparing American atrocities to Putin’s intentional (and ongoing) use of strategic war crimes?
As usual, I doubt that you’ll provide an answer… but I thought I might ask anyway.
Please name some of “Putin’s” “strategic war crimes” with backing evidence for them in the form of confirmed photographs and on-the-ground reporting. Once you’re able to do that, please also provide the list of Ukrainian “strategic war crimes” being committed and having been committed since 2014. One wonders if Bradley Grower is aware of any without Googling…and trust me, Googling is difficult right now because the Silicon Valley-Surveillance/Psyop Agencies are flooding results with anti-Putin, pro-NATO content and hiding or censoring anything that countervails it. Of note: Twitter de-platformed Christopher Hitchens this week. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
Putin used chemical weapons in military operations against civilians in Chechnya and Ukraine, like the U.S. has in the past.
Putin attacked hospitals in Ukraine, like the U.S. has in the past.
Putin used cluster bombs against civilians, like the U.S. has in the past.
I condemn all of the above actions as war crimes by all parties involved.
ALSO, PLEASE PROVIDE EVIDENCE THESE HAVE NOT TAKEN PLACE.
A strategy of driving civilians out of urban areas by use of brutal air attacks in order to reduce military casualties during subsequent street fighting, was originally pioneered by the U.S. in Dresden, Germany and Tokyo, Japan at the end of WWII. Putin has adopted this strategy, as he has lost too many men in the land invasion to continue on the ground.
One wonders if you are just ignorant of historical fact… or merely another useful online tool seeking to muddy the water with senseless defenses of the ongoing and unprovoked attacks upon Ukraine.
FYI- Christopher Hitchens is DEAD… and has been for several years.
Bradley Gower:
False equivalence is what America’s media in many cases is doing at this moment. Maybe some of those journalists grew up in the 1950s with that odd saying of “I’d rather be dead than RED.” But for media to paint Putin as evil and Zelensky as goodness, is just silly. Or seeing Biden as wonderful and Putin as evil incarnate—. I guess you already forgot that what GW Bush was doing in Iraq is what Biden is accusing Putin of doing in Ukraine. War crimes are a horror , but sadly and throughout history — what nations have not participated in that?
If the U.S. had invaded Mexico after having seized New Labrador a couple of years earlier, and after having armed and organized breakaway rebel factions in Chihuahua and Sonora for seven years, and in that attack, intentionally targeted Mexican civilians and infrastructure with illegal weapons of war… then PERHAPS your accusations might have some sort of merit.
Russia’s ongoing atrocities aren’t even remotely comparable to the Ukrainian people defending their nation from invasion, but apparently you assume that’s worth a try as well!
Instead of recognizing that equivalence REQUIRES a comparable set of facts in order to establish a legitimate argument, you’ve decided to double down on your attempt to blame “Journalists” for your own errors… and of course, imply my memory is somehow faulty.
Clearly, in my response to Comment-Bot, I have proven that I recognize and condemn ALL comparable U.S. aggression in the past. Unfortunately, U.S. aggression cannot (AND SHOULD NOT) be blamed this time around. Even Amnesty International has proven Putin is intentionally targeting civilians and infrastructure.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/russian-military-commits-indiscriminate-attacks-during-the-invasion-of-ukraine/
Wait, you do realize that the Iraq lies were told AFTER 9/11, right?
Yes, Wondering Woman knows the lies supervened the 9/11 attacks. The grammatical distinction is subtle, but it is there, check it out:
WW wrote “—sadly he lied and lied and lied re; Iraq causing 9/11 .”
The ‘re;’ means ‘regarding’ or ‘with regards to’ methinks.
re RE: Yes, you are correct. It does refer to regards.
Very good analysis. And as-usual, what’s ESPECIALLY annoying about these pundits and their long-distance psychoanalysis is that they fail to draw any comparisons to our leaders here in the West, our dottering Reagan & Biden, feckless ‘W’ (who told a biographer he wanted to be a war-time POTUS), sex-addict Clinton and Trump (need I say more?), as well as the Brit’s US-co-dependent leaders like Blair and Boris Johnson. Also, I have a strong suspicion that most leaders of large institutions, no-matter what form of government or organization, get there by having a nearly sociopathic indifference to others and strong manipulative abilities…
The author writes: “The Western media caricature of Putin as a psychopathic leader acting on irrational and idiosyncratic beliefs is a convenient propaganda narrative…”
Any similarity to the behavior of Mr Trump is purely coincidental.
Yup and here in lies the problem; all of these leaders have similar profiles. That said, the supposition that Putin’s specific (past and present) actions are rational is beyond crazy.
“The silence on both the diplomatic and military fronts risks further escalation instead of a quick negotiated end to the war.” The author really can’t believe Putin wants and is serious about a quick, negotiated end of the invasion he started?
“Recent negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul were hailed by both parties as constructive, with Russia vowing to reduce military activity around Kyiv and northern Ukraine as a result” Well that was true for less then 10 hours and then Russia resumed intense bombing over night.
“Asked by reporters about Zelensky’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said yesterday that Russia “has never violated international conventions.” Well that’s laughable.
“Well that was true for less then 10 hours and then Russia resumed intense bombing over night.
“Asked by reporters about Zelensky’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said yesterday that Russia “has never violated international conventions.” Well that’s laughable”
Your proof, in the form of links to on-the-ground (or at least within the country) reporting are awaited. I won’t even get into how much context you’ve (intentionally) left out of your comment.
Wait long enough, and Comment_Bot will eventually request you provide an unredacted version of doctor’s notes from Putin’s most recent therapy session.
If we follow Timothy Snyder there’s no need to psychoanalyze Putin from afar, because he has been telling us what he’s doing for years. Snyder specifically cites an essay Putin published last July in which he said he was on a mission from God to restore the unity of the Russian empire and to destroy defects that keep it from being great, including dissent and democracy. Today’s Ukraine looks forward to what their country might be with a society modeled on Western European examples. Putin looks back to the Russian empire as it was united in the 17th century by patriarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, who in turn were looking back to the mythology of the Viking Rus who converted Russia to Christianity in the tenth century.
In other words, Cold War concepts of competition between a few hegemonic great powers and even the concept of nation states with fixed borders are irrelevant to Putin’s intentions. My conclusion is that as long as he’s in power Putin isn’t going to stop trying to reclaim Russia as he sees it.
Good summary Chuck and Putin will continue to punch pass his weigh class because of Russia’s considerable Nuclear weapons.
“Today’s Ukraine looks forward to what their country might be with a society modeled on Western European examples.”
LOL, absolutely ridiculous. Ask any left-leaning news outlet or social media site in Ukraine about that. They were ALL shut down starting just prior to the Russian invasion. Also, you can ask the fully embraced neo-Nazi Azov Battalion folks and their ilk – who, while THIS time only securing a small percentage of seats in Ukraine’s gov’t, actually wield far more influence and power within that country than any Western media outlet is now willing to acknowledge. Funny, that. Because from their reporting from 2014-2021 Ukraine had (quote) “A Nazi problem.”
Furthermore, the Zelensky gov’t was elected on a platform of peace (meaning in Donbas) and they repeatedly failed to work toward that claimed goal.
I think Putin probably is autistic but I also the mayor of Chicago is too and people negotiate with her every day.
Counterpoint: Depicting Putin as a madman may well be pretty frikkin’ accurate at this point and I wouldn’t trust him to honor any deal he makes.
I guess war is the only rational solution. I guess endless bloodshed across the globe is the only sane response.
That or give in to the murderous autocrat and say good luck to anyone else who crosses him or any other border country he decides he wants to dictate policy for.
Look, you may not wanna fight the bully who takes you lunch money. And you may get hurt in that fight. But sometimes you gotta do it. I’ve been in 2 wars and I don’t wanna see another; but if there’s a better way to stop the guy I ain’t seeing it.
“Imagine for a moment that a new drug comes on the market. It’s super-addictive, and in no time everyone’s hooked. Scientists investigate and soon conclude that the drug causes, I quote, ‘a misperception of risk, anxiety, lower mood levels, learned helplessness, contempt and hostility toward others, [and] desensitization.’
“Would we use this drug? Would our kids be allowed to try it? Would the government legalize it? To all the above: yes…”
“That drug is the news.”
“…The news, according to dozens of studies, is a mental health hazard.
“First to open up this field of research, back in the 1990s, was George Gerbner…He also coined a term to describe the phenomenon he found: mean world syndrome, whose clinical symptoms are cynicism, misanthropy and pessimism…”
“For the powerful, a hopeful view of human nature is downright threatening.” ~from “Humankind”, by Rutger Bregman
The Western corporate-intelligence-service MSM is sticking to transcribing the Russia-Ukraine scripts that have been written and fed to them by the “intelligence community” (i.e., “deep state” and “unnamed US officials”) since 2014, if not earlier.
The goal was always to ignore Russian requests for a diplomatic solution to the Donbas situation and force Putin’s hand; which is exactly what was done between December 2021 through the end of the Olympics, continuing on that path as we speak. The Russians three times approached NATO/US/EU bodies with demands and requests regarding the two breakaway provinces of Ukraine and were rebuffed every single time as shelling by Ukrainian forces in violation of the Minsk accords increased daily along with casualties on the rebel side.
Portraying Putin as a madman only sticks to the script and makes diplomacy less likely than…cha-ching…massive arms (er…”Lethal Aid”) sales to Ukraine by the “defense” contractors in the West who also happen to be parts of the same corporate portfolios as several major media outlets. Again, nothing new under the sun for anyone that’s been paying attention.
How could I have forgotten the big role that Western energy companies have played in this and who stand to get even richer as a result of the cancelation of Russian energy contracts with the EU.
Another commenter had it exactly right re: the LNG market and the racket that certain US “interests” and well connected people (cough…cough…the Biden family) have been running in that country post-Maidan coup of 2014.
The goal has always been: 1) More arms sales, 2) Isolation of Russia on the global energy market; especially EU – which means greater profits and fewer regulations for Western/US energy firms who will attempt to fill the LNG void and 3) A “quagmire” resulting in regime change in Russia (aka – Putin must go!).
I suppose a 4th, albeit mostly unstated/unanalyzed role would be to show China an example of what might happen should they attempt to take action on Taiwan or on their landlocked Southwestern flank.
Well, that’s easy. You ‘forgot’ because you are a Russian troll Comment_Bot that screwed up.
ply fair.
Let us assume that the evaluation of Putin as an entirely sane “typical authoritarian” is correct. How does that change the appropriate approach to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Any similarities between Putin and American Presidents who were elected because of their authoritarian “I alone can fix this” persona is purely coincidental.
This story provides good evidence that the imperial power relies on fact-free speculation for its propaganda and its policies. To the extent the misleadership believes its own lies we are severely endangered. Especially if the lies extend to the outcome of a nuclear exchange. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ukrainian and Russian corruption do not belong in the same league as US corruption. It is quite obvious that the working classes of Ukraine, Russia, the rest of Europe, and the rest of the world are the losers in this monstrosity. How do we gather the strength to rise up and defeat it?
In whipping the US public into an insane mob salivating to join WWI, it was the genius of Edward Bernays to teach the propaganda media to vilify the Kaiser personally rather than blame the more complex German government. US warmongering corporate media use exactly the same strategy in teaching the gullible Northamerican people to hate Vladimir Putin personally instead of acknowledging the complexity of the Russian government and decision making. In his contempt for Northamerican news consumers Bernays understood that the public could not think critically or independently.
Spoken like someone completely unaware of the correct spelling of our continent.
Great headline.
There was a video journalism on the Freedom fighting Spammers in Europe who have the ability to call the Russians from a real or Made-up local number to get then to open the mail, maybe click on a link?
Ever hear anyone doing that to anyone before? I have.
So these spammers are elated to share that they are in the Russian Telecoms undetected.
Currently there is a Bricking Malware being distributed in Europe. It’s here too, it was developed here and many terminals were bricked.
It’s FLUBOT.
FLUBOT is being disseminated into Russian equipment to brick it.
My local provider is a Finish born Programmer who has access to the switch here too.
buh bye Finkland, Poland.
I will help push in that stool:
Russians are killing UNIFORMED and Non Uniformed conscripted Ukrainian NAZIS who control the office and policy of Ukraine in Kiev.
Zelenski is a sockpuppet for the Azov Batllion: NAZIS
I noticed your Twitter account has disappeared…why?