No one quite knows why Putin appears to be choosing this moment to go after Ukraine. The Russian leader is acknowledged to be a strategist and well geopolitical strategist.
Now that he has opted against war, he is still not ready to pay the price of war. What was going on his mind that made him to choose war against peace?
But the argument above is not a new development and Putin has never waged war against Ukraine because of this.
With his Ukraine’s decisions, he is changing his identity from being a calculating-risk taker to a rash gambler.
Timothy Ash, a risk analyst at Bluebay Asset Management in London, fears Putin is a gambler who may have gone too far to back down. He agrees the Russian leader already has notched up some accomplishments.
“Putin has enhanced his image as the guy who calls the shots and the poker player with all the cards. More than ever, he is seen as a leader who everyone has to contend with if they want solutions to the geopolitical problems that he typically creates himself,” Ash says.
But Ash cautions: “If the Russian leader does not proceed with some form of military action in the weeks ahead, his bluff will have been called” and he would risk “emerging from the current crisis as a net loser unless he proceeds further.
Does he see it the same way? If so, will he escalate from here? At this point, he may feel that he has little choice.”
Can we say it is due to the Alzheimer disease found in him since one of its symptoms means there will be an increasing trouble with planning and organizing and can be delusional? Yes, one can argue.
In Alzheimer’s disease, brain cells are affected which causes the brain to shrink amongst many other ailments.
