2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Hillary is aspiring to be president she must not be frightened of 'tone' [View all]cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)You liken Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, David Vitter, and Lindsey Graham to a KGB Officer who used to pull people's fingernails out with pliers?
Um, you're kidding, right?
"Putin acknowledges that the KGB evaluated him as a man with stunted emotions. His instructors concluded he was at risk, not of succumbing to the temptations of women or drink, but because of his pervasive lowered sense of danger. He was also classified as a man unhelpfully unsocial. To this day, he still only grudgingly half admits the agencys character assessment. I dont think that I had a lowered sense of danger, but the psychologists came to this conclusion having followed my behaviour for a long time, he told journalists back in 2000. This, I fear, is what makes him so ruthless."
This man has no fear. Does not know it. Is so immune to it that Russian psychologists thought it put him at risk. Well, he's no longer at risk; he's in power.
http://www.newstatesman.com/2015/10/ruthlessness-vladimir-putin-0