Vladimir Putin suffers from Asperger's syndrome, Pentagon report claims - M.N.: Which is a very fancy way to say: "We don't really know what is wrong with this boy." (The diagnosis of Asperger's was eliminated in the 2013 fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and replaced by a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on a severity scale - From Wikipedia)
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Old Pentagon Study Says Putin Has Asperger’sby Tessa Berenson
A 2008 study from a Pentagon think tank claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin has Asperger’s syndrome, an autistic spectrum disorder.
While the researchers can’t prove their theory without a brain scan, Brenda Connors, an expert in movement pattern analysis at the U.S. Naval War College, says that Putin’s “neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy,” according to USA Today.
Stephen Porges, a University of North Carolina psychiatry professor, says in the study that “Putin carries a form of autism.” But USA Today reports that he has since retreated from the conclusion, saying he had never seen the finished report and “would back off saying he has Asperger’s.”
Whether or not the Russian leader is actually on the autistic spectrum, the authors of the study have determined the most effective way to deal with his personality type. “If you need to do things with him, you don’t want to be in a big state affair but more of one-on-one situation someplace somewhere quiet,” says Porges.
Obama, take note.
A 2008 study from a Pentagon think tank claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin has Asperger’s syndrome, an autistic spectrum disorder.
While the researchers can’t prove their theory without a brain scan, Brenda Connors, an expert in movement pattern analysis at the U.S. Naval War College, says that Putin’s “neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy,” according to USA Today.
Stephen Porges, a University of North Carolina psychiatry professor, says in the study that “Putin carries a form of autism.” But USA Today reports that he has since retreated from the conclusion, saying he had never seen the finished report and “would back off saying he has Asperger’s.”
Whether or not the Russian leader is actually on the autistic spectrum, the authors of the study have determined the most effective way to deal with his personality type. “If you need to do things with him, you don’t want to be in a big state affair but more of one-on-one situation someplace somewhere quiet,” says Porges.
Obama, take note.
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Putin Making Life in Crimea Even Worse than in Soviet Times, Cemilev Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, February 5 – Mustafa Cemilev, the longtime leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement, says that since Putin’s Anschluss “a Soviet regime has returned to the occupied territory of Crimea,” something his nation recognizes because it struggled for several decades against it for the right to return to its homeland.
But in some ways, Cemilev tells Grani.ru’s Elena Vlasenko, the situation in Crimea now is even worse than in Soviet times. In Soviet times, the authorities followed certain procedures and people counted on them. Now, the occupation forces “simply can seize people and carry them off to who knows where” (grani.ru/Politics/World/Europe/Ukraine/m.237509.html).
Moreover, in Soviet times, it was impossible to publish something that was prohibited, but now, because the occupation regime hasn’t fully taken control of the situation, “it is possible to print something but then [if officials don’t like it for one or another reason] you are arrested or face enormous fines.”
After the Moscow-orchestrated “referendum,” Cemilev says, the occupation authorities took under control all of the media. They shut off all Ukrainian television channels, replacing them with Russian ones. They banned all meetings and marches. And if three people met together, they “were considered participants in illegal demonstrations and fined.”
The new rulers began to conduct searches for arms and prohibited literature, the latter being something “completely new for citizens of independent Ukraine” who “had already forgotten that such a term could exist and that it was possible to prohibit one kind of literature or another.” And they did so in a crude way that insulted the dignity of Crimeans.
Under the new order, “one can speak only good things about Putin,” Cemilev says. “If one says something bad, then the next day interrogations and threats begin.” An “atmosphere of fear” has arisen, and people are afraid to speak on the telephone especially if they want to say something about Putin or Russia.
Cemilev says that it is especially distressing to recall that Ukraine did not actively resist the Russian occupation. When Putin moved, there were only 6,000 combat-ready troops in its army, while the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol alone had about 20,000 fighters. Indeed, in that city alone, there were almost four times more Russian military personnel than Ukrainian soldiers in all of Ukraine.
That is part of the explanation for Ukrainian passivity, the Crimean Tatar leader says, but there is more involved than that and much of it is disturbing. When Putin sent in his “little green men,” the Russian terrorists numbered only 110 – and it would not have taken much for the Ukrainian Alpha Unit to seize and stop them.
But that unit, formed to struggle with terrorism, he reports, never got the order to proceed, and Cemilev says that one of its officers told him that “in general, we were prepared for a struggle with Crimean Tatars” rather than for anything else. Moreover, the Ukrainian security police on the peninsula almost to a man went over to the Russian side.
Crimea has no prospects as long as the occupation continues, Cemilev says. “Neither for the Crimean Tatars not for the Russian-speaking population.” The only growth industry is the Russian military, and there are no more than 40,000 Russian troops in Crimea, more than the total number of personnel in the Ukrainian army.
“Our territory has been transformed into a military base which represents a threat not only to our people and not only to Ukraine but in general to the entire world,” Cemilev says. “And therefore, the only way out is for the international community to do everything it can to achieve the most rapid liberation of Crimea and all territories seized by Russian soldiers in the eastern part of Ukraine.”
Because that is the case, he continues, many are now concerned that Europeans are saying they may lift or reduce sanctions if Russia will simply “stop advancing further in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and if Moscow will “observe the Minsk accords about a cease fire.”
Indeed, Cemilev says, some are beginning to joke bitterly that sometime in the future, the EU will issue a declaration promising to lift sanctions “if the Russians will stop bombing Kyiv.”
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Unlike Mussolini, Putin Can’t Make the Trains Run on Time – and Russians are Taking Noticeby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, February 5 – Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, it was said, might have failed at everything else, but at least he kept the trains running on time. Now, it appears that Vladimir Putin isn’t capable of doing that and his all-too-public wrestling with the problem is generating concerns among Russians about his ability to govern the country.
When Vladimir Putin finally focused on the fact that Russian Railways was ending service on most of the local electric trains in the country, he exclaimed “have they gone out of their minds” and ordered the government to come up with the 15 billion rubles (250 million US dollars) to restore service.
But it quickly became apparent that Putin not only was simply reacting to a problem the media was calling attention to rather than adopting a positive policy to deal with it and that even if his order is carried out, it will affect only those routes that have been shut down this year and not the larger number cut eliminated over the last two years (slon.ru/fast/economics/rzhd-vosstanovit-tolko-tret-iz-otmenennykh-za-dva-goda-elektrichek-1212105.xhtml,polit.ru/article/2015/02/05/trains_putin/,kommersant.ru/doc/2660776 and newizv.ru/lenta/2015-02-05/214393-vozvrashenie-elektrichek-budet-stoit-gosbjudzhetu-15-mlrd-rublej.html).
That has sparked skepticism among Russians about Putin’s much-ballyhooed “hands on” approach to governance. In the words of one blogger, after Putin’s outburst, the electric trains are supposed to run. But what this shows is that “the consequences of his ‘hands on” approach is not the prevention of problems but [only] a reaction to them” (7x7-journal.ru/post/53813).
That of course suggests that Russians are beginning to understand that as long as Putin is in power, their country will lurch from problem to problem and crisis to crisis, with none really ever being resolved, and that they if not he will be the first victims of the Kremlin leader’s unfortunate approach.
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