Both were cancer victims who thought they were doing what they had to do because they were going to die (Putin fasttracked the invasion at the worst possible time where it would have likely been devastatingly successful if he had waited for a few more democracies to Trump themselves)
Both began turning against core members of their “family” (Prigozhin) until they were no longer in any way dedicated to what the excuse they set themselves out on but the sunk cost of the worst aspects of themselves. To further drive the point home, both survived their brush with cancer.
Both end up having to appeal to and getting picked off by the new lows of the environment they’ve set themselves off on (China, North Korea).
All this time Putin has been seeing the world through the eyes of a KGB operative. All the economic and political achievements of Russia didn’t matter to him, it was things like being able to get his way and pick off those dissenters and traitors from within those countries, as if that proved how weak those countries were. For all his talk, I doubt he even saw or sees NATO as a threat, viewing it in the same spectrum of bullshitting to use against things he does not respect. He wanted to collapse the world order to cronies under him, a pure power grab. Just like Walter, he will reap what he sows.
The comparison is so f-ing great.
All this time Putin has been seeing the world through the eyes of a KGB operative. All the economic and political achievements of Russia didn’t matter to him, it was things like being able to get his way and pick off those dissenters and traitors from within those countries, as if that proved how weak those countries were. For all his talk, I doubt he even saw or sees NATO as a threat, viewing it in the same spectrum of bullshitting to use against things he does not respect. He wanted to collapse the world order to cronies under him, a pure power grab. Just like Walter, he will reap what he sows.