Originally Posted by chunkstyle
… I’m not sure anyone has a handle on it.

A very good assessment of the current situation…
Portentous. Thirty pages into this topic and I’m still unclear about the arguments. Lots of assertions, suppositions, accusations, and ad hominem attacks - pardon the insensitive incongruity of the comparison, but it’s a little bit like the residents of Kyiv must feel when being indiscriminately bombed and shelled and killed for no apparent rhyme or reason.

The only explanation that makes any sense to me is that Putin is a delusional madman on a mission of dark fantasy - one that is orders of magnitude worse than what we humans normally indulge in.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller