Why, why, why?

Why people don't "get" Puti

Why, why, why…..

How often have you heard questions like:

• “Why doesn’t Putin just get the war over with?”

• “Why doesn’t he use the Russian military to save the Gazans? “

• Why didn’t he intervene more forcibly in Ukraine earlier?”

• “Why is he still talking to the Americans after they tried to kill him?”

• “Why doesn’t he seize some American ships? “

• “Why is he talking to monsters like Netanyahu and Al Sharaa?”

• “Why doesn’t he just kill Zelensky”.

Those questions are mostly from people who like Putin!

We have all the answers

In the “West”, that area of the world east of China, they don’t ask such questions because they know all the answers, conveniently supplied by the media. The MSM of course answer these questions by saying :

• Putin is weak and corrupt

• Putin fears being overthrown

• the Russians have lost millions of soldiers

• the Russian military is on its last legs

• the economy is collapsing

• Putin is dying of cancer

• he is just a BAD man-- not “NORMAL

The media are right about one thing – Putin is not “normal”—not in the American sense, where “normal” actually means “unnatural”.

In my various special articles which touch on Russia and Putin and the rise of Russia and China, in the context of the decline of the “West” and the delusionality of Western “leaders” , I realized that I am not “normal” either. Poor me. Who will love me. Ah! Ichi and Chappy do!

Also I am the whole country of Russia is not “normal”. Nor is China.

Putin’s Gifts

Putin’s biography reveals an exceptionally gifted individual.

His gifts are part genetic, of course, but also endowed by circumstance and a challenging environment as he grew to adulthood. So he is completely unlike any “Western” politician. Putin was not born with a gold spoon in his mouth — not a even plastic one. No spoon at all.

To get ahead in Western politics you need a measure of sociopathy or psychopathy, not to mention a dash of narcissism and a lot of good old fashioned dishonesty.

Putin got ahead by intelligence, competence and a sense of service. He got ahead by saving Russia as a nation and a culture. Saving it from whom?

From the US of course.

The Americans had figured out previous leaders like Gorby and Yeltsin. But they didn’t understand Putin. At first they thought they did but nothing went the way they had hoped. Suddenly it seemed Russia was back in business.

What to do? The CIA commissioned studies.

CIA Research

One CIA study assessed VPP as having Asperger’s.

This study was immediately disavowed because it was partly based on motion studies – the way Putin moves, which resembles the “ADHD” walk, despite it varying depending on which type of ADHD they have.

Yes, there is really such a thing!

Individuals with ADHD often experience hyper-focus. When they are deeply engaged in this way , they may move with a fluidity that looks like free-form dance. Other times, they walk purposefully but not quite naturally.

For example, an acquaintance once said to me: “Are you gay-- you walk like you are dancing”. I am not gay – but I do have ADHD (the “atypical kind”)

I told this story to a couple of my gay friends, who were hugely amused.

Like many people “on the spectrum’ I am dyspraxic – clumsy— partly because I have trouble distinguishing left and right. I am a terrible dancer. On the other hand, I have studied various martial arts, judo, karate, aikido and others which confer balance and fluidity of movement.

Putin, of course, studied martial arts, too. When I look at videos him walking — they seem very natural to me.

In any case, the US Government didn’t like classifying Putin as having Asperger’s (now ASD) for the same reason they didn’t like Assange’s diagnosis of Asperger’s. To the US, Putin and Assange should not be seen as “different” – just BAD! EVIL.

The Gunslinger Putin

So, after the CIA dissed its own analyst’s report, it appears to have promoted analyses saying that Putin’s walk was the “gunslinger’s gait” walking with the right hand at the side to quickly draw a gun! The story, which suddenly appeared in all sorts of places, was that his walk was the result of KGB training,—according to a KGB manual which I have not been able to confirm actually exists!

An iff explanation…. Putin was trained as a foreign intelligence officer – not a body guard or spy, or anything requiring violence. And a military walk of any kind is not a good look for an intelligence officer.

Me Too

I am proud to say that I walk the same way, as Putin. Martial arts taught me to keep my dominant hand low and to the front so I could block quickly above or below.

That aside, when some people pointed out the incongruities in the “gunslinger” theory, a new theory surfaced —“Parkinson’s”.

As I said, in the “West” Putin is not “normal”. Not like Bush or Biden or Trump.

Although I find Putin easy to understand, most people in the “West” don’t want to understand at all. Not just Putin — anything — because the truth is always frightening. This is a consequence of the dominance of Type 1 heuristics – automated thought.

“Normal” people rely on “received wisdom” that is ,other people’s ideas. Group Think is fast. And reactive. And wrong as often as it is right.

Donald Trump is a good example of a man whose ideas are derivative. He gets his ideas from people not selected for intelligence or knowhow but for their “look”. Then he makes decisions which often don’t work out.

So, he tries something else - -a variation but really the same — with identical results , which he means he as to keep on trying – less and less engaged with reality.

Putin; thinking as seeing

Putin by contrast is creative and logical at the same time. Polymathic and auto-didactic, he can think in all three cognitive styles, Kahneman’s “Fast” and “Slow” and Deleuze / Guattari’s rhizomatic relational style, so he has immense flexibility and scope. He makes mistakes like everyone else — but learns from them.

Looking at facts and realities e perceives patterns and relationships and connections that others do not. He appears as a gradualist because he is aware that wisdom comes from knowing that you don’t know - that things can change; prediction, probabilistic; and the future, uncertain. It’s non-linear and can be slooooooooooowww!

He is not “thinking” as most people define the word – he is “seeing” –the big picture.

And that is why the West can never win against him.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, ‘I’ do not hit, ‘it’ hits all by itself.” Bruce Lee. Enter the Dragon, talking to the Shaolin Abbot.

Putin knows he cannot predict exactly what Trump will do next or NATO will do or the Ukrainians. “When there is opportunity, “he” does not hit, “it” its all by itself”.

He is prepared.

The “thinking man” combat stance. It is not combative but it you can immediately move to attack and defend simultaneously. Your hands are in the right places

The SVO was never a “war” in the Western sense; it is an opportunity for Putin to unify the Russian people, clarify Russian values and develop Russian society against the neofascist Russophobic “West”, which eventually destroy itself.

In Syria, Putin saw clearly that Assad would not listen to his advice and was doomed against the combined forces of Turkey, the US, Israel, and Islamist extremists. Russian forces were not defeated—they kept their bases on the Mediterranean. But Assad lost power.

The result is chaos, which in the end will weaken both Israel and the US and perhaps Turkey, now that the Kurds have been abandoned by the US. What could go wrong? Everything.

The Russians provided the Venezuelans with assistance, which could not deter a one-off American sneak attack. Trump’s three hour attack was a success but his long campaign is a failure. Maduro is in prison — but now a martyr to his people.

In the end the US lost. The Venezuelans are rallying behind the Chavistas who were – and are – prepared for an invasion, knowing they cannot successfully fight an air war with the US, anymore than the Vietnamese could –but can fight an asymmetric war on the ground. The Americans moved on — to threaten Greenland. And now Iran, which can prosecute an air war. How successfully no on knows. of course.

Trump is a useful idiot, for Putin’s big picture includes BRICS and a multipolar world and everything Trump does blows back and encourages the world to embrace the alternatives that BRICS stands for.

Snow in Tokyo?

What snow in Tokyo looks like

2 AM in Tokyo and tomorrow maybe snow….I really, really hope not.

I have been trying to catch up on replies to coffee buyers. My replies are a little long since I include my opinion on the day’s events as I see them.

Sorry about that.

I just feel that coffee buyers deserve something extra in return for their help, not that my opinion on things are really worth a cup of coffee. Especially with my obsessive rewriting of Part 2 of Putin book.

Buy us coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/julicow. Click here or on the photo above.