Geopolitics
Putin’s Dangerous Delusion Deepens
Comparing himself to Peter the Great is surely a sign of madness
I wrote this week about my personal global threat index notching up. Now today I read news about what is delusion on a grand scale by Vladimir Putin.
Speaking to an audience made up of young scientists and entrepreneurs, he likened himself to Peter the Great.
“You might think he was fighting with Sweden, seizing their lands,” Putin said, supposedly referring to the 21 year Northern War which Peter launched at the turn of the 18th Century as he enlarged the Russian Empire.
“But he seized nothing; he reclaimed it!” Putin asserted, saying that Slavs had inhabited the region for hundreds of years.
Smirking, he said “It seems it has fallen to us, too, to reclaim and strengthen”.
Ukraine?
Megalomania?
The Baltic States reacted swiftly and furiously.
Another notch up.
