Classic mistake to define authoritan leaders "left" or "right". Their ideologies have nothing to do with the tension between labor and capital. It is all about personal absolute power and stealing as much for himself as possible.
There's 2 axes in politics, left/right and liberal/authoritarian. Stalin managed to do deals with both Hitler's Germany 1939 and the military Japanese Empire 1941. Autocrats feel threatened by liberal democracy which though despised by them as weak and indecisive, is in the long run more of a threat as they change leaders and tend towards better outcomes.
@@RobBCactive True as well, but that is not the point of the argument. Ideologies are not limited to the political sphere. Ideological thinking and ideological claims are based on the supposition that the structure of reality can be altered solely by the application of power for which ideologes have invented clouding narratives, as well as exclusion and inclusion mechanism. Therefore, logic and ontological or epistemological truths are generally rejected by ideologues. So, political theories, left or right, often employ the same ideological means.
@@hawkiebaby What argument? BTW your statement appears to be false. ideology a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. "the ideology of democracy" synonyms: beliefs, ideas, ideals, principles, doctrine, creed, credo, teaching, dogma, theory, thesis, tenets, canon(s), conviction(s), persuasion, opinions, position, ethics, morals the science of ideas; the study of their origin and nature.
@@RobBCactive I was refering to Bengt Björck's argument that you commented on. What you present is a generalized definition of the word origin of ideology (derived as a term coined from the 'history of ideas'). What I presented is the contempory and pragmatic use of the concept and my definition of ideological thougt.
If everyone who had an unhappy childhood would have become a criminal, more people would be in prison than would be free. This is not an excuse at all.
Well you get your compass from your parents. If they are absent you can go any which way. Your parents lay down the ground work. Trust me no foundation your like a ship without a rudder or compass.😞
@@aguy559 Nowadays it is so common with divorce that there is an absent mother or father. Back in Putin time it was far from common. I know men that still are traumatized by having an absent father. One of the nastier ones was an absent father of a school friend and he was so happy on the first day but the second day his father hald sold his pet chicken for a beer. It might have been infidelity that caused men to walk out. Back then if a man did that he was on the outskirts of society shunned by all.
Despotic psychopath, he's beyond help now, off with him to a mental institution where every day he'll hear: Only Love can Save us, by Quintessence from 1969.
@@robinbreeds9217Erm ... dunno how, but you've got me all wrong. I'm ex army, strongly support Western democracy, NATO, Ukraine and my country, if not its current leadership. Putin's Russia most decidedly isn't Soviet Russia, though it shares its violent colonialism along with Tsarist Russia. I dislike all autocrats and kleptocrats: current, past or future, who always hide behind a cloak of false nationalism.
It is intriguing this, when personal dysfunctionality ceases to be personal and becomes of interest ( and risk) to the rest of the world. I have always thought that Putin's desperate need to show his masculinity ( barechested action man) betrays a deep insecurity, or why else would anyone have a need to prove this? It's a tragedy that innocent people have to pay the price for his personal inadequacies.
@@denlawful Don't recall Trump taking off his shirt to ride a horse, or hunting or any nonsense like Putin. Putin was a KGB agent. Xi has grown up in a lying and violent system. Trump has nothing to do with any of this.
In the words of Dr. Robert Block, the former President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Adverse childhood experiences are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today." It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass It all starts in early childhood. Empathy and emotional attunement is crucial to raising secure children to become secure adults.
Trusting a briefcase with the nuke buttons to a demented senile person is far more dangerous, in every elderly home the staff hides all knives and scissors.
Sociopaths and psychopaths do act rationally. But they are completely selfish at any cost. They are incapable of empathy and are completely immoral and amoral.
I can see where your coming from but let's not forget. Certain traits etc... that we recognise in someone similar to Putin we can maybe prevent them from being in power as a dictator!
putin wasn't born until 1952, so how is his father being away during ww2, which ended 7 years before he was born, be relevant? makes me question his theory
Arguably, it's relevant via the lasting effect that had on both of his parents, and on the people and society around them. (I read that the effect it had on his older brother was his death -- in the siege of Leningrad.)
Because, in Putin's mind, his father is still away fighting WW2. And Putin's trying to save his father, and get him back, by going out and winning WW2 himself.
Not sure if I heard a lot about childhoods here…but this was interesting. When the interviewer asked if there could be a “strongwoman,” I couldn’t help but think of former FBI profiler’s John Douglas’s analysis of serial killers. He observed that men tend to lash out in anger; women tend to internalize their anger. This is, of course, a generalization, there have been female serial killers if fewer than men, and we’ve all met the “Queen Bee,” the female bully equivalent, but are they any more rare than male bullies and strongmen? I can’t answer.
As women as generally not as strong physically as men, they engage in violence through the use of words. If a man wants to hurt you, he may punch you in the face. But if a woman wants to hurt you she will say something malicious about you. She will seek to damage her victim socially and have that person ostracized. That's my two bobs worth.
Whenever I hear the term "strongman," especially used in the context of rulers, I think of the Devil's title of "strongman" in a parable told by a certain carpenter.
I think there's a lot more that might explain this than just absentee fathers, otherwise every family where the father isnot seen because he's at work all the time, or dead, or just left his family would mean a world chockful of narcissistic dictators. Narcissism may be the defining feature, but narcissism tends to run in families, so what else was going on when daddy was absent.... was mummy lauding the absentee, possibly strict and emotionally distant father to her child, holding him up as an example? Or heavily critiquing the absentee father and telling the son he was 'better' or different? Was there much empathy and emotional understanding in these households? I doubt it...
@@basiltozer9078 Well that came out of left field - no I don't have 'daddy issues' or mummy ones come to that, though certainly my upbringing will have had an impact on the shaping of my personality, but tell me, do you think that all psychological/emotional malfunction is attributable to lingering parental issues?
His father was absent and slightly injured and his mother nearly starved to death. This was in WWII. They were too traumatised to look after Putin and give him the love etc... This passed on the affects onto Putin of the nazis. It can change the brain development in a child later on in life if intervention isn't done, which in putins case it wasn't!
@@vanessaford8630 Putin wasn't born till October 1952, six years after the war had ended, though I do realise some eastern bloc countries (such as Yugoslavia) continued to suffer for a while afterwards. And yes, trauma from the war would not have gone away as far as his parents, particularly his mother, was concerned. If you're broken, giving a child the emotional input it needs isn't easy... and male children need more emotional input too.
WHAT NONSENSE BLAMING HIS CHILDHOOD FOR HIS VILE, MURDEROUS WAYS. ON HERE THERE IS A SITE WHERE THEY ASK HOW ORDINARY GERMANS COULD TURN OUT TO BE SUCH MONSTERS DURING WW2. I KNOW OF MANY FRIENDS WHO HAVE HAD HORRENDOUS CHILDHOODS BUT TURNED OUT JUST FINE!!!
The Jesuits said, “Give a boy for the first seven years and I will give you the man’. The experiences a child has from birth, the feelings, behaviours and words of those who are his guardians are writ large on the sponge that is a child’s soul. Most people will be able to detach themselves in their youth from a bad environment and recognise that they are separate and individuals and attain balance as an adult. Ordinary people are capable of horrendous acts, Ask anyone who will do anything to not feel pain or die unless do the bidding of dictator. unless we deal with the doppelgänger part of our psyche, the double, we are vulnerable to bad behaviour out of fear.
Exactly. Real men acknowledge their issues and talk it out with a therapist. They recognise a problem, know they need help to deal with it, they spend their own money on self improvement and they let go of the past. And then everyone benefits. That is real strength. Putin is a weak man playing at being the tough guy. If only he had faced up to himself. Now it’s too late.
This is history, this is how Russia negotiate, but it's nice to see all the guys in Ukraine winning the negotiations. I can't imagine putin trying to negotiate with Poland as well. If he did, they be happy not only shown putin the door but life itself.
@UC9Q1MKS-T59EsN7d0WuWxYQ are you so confident that you can win Russia in a conventional war in Europe I mean the United States of America look we have stop lying to ourselves and be realistic those who lie to your that the Russian army is weak knows that nuclear weapons aside the can't win against Russia yet they seem to say otherwise.
it may have been a times article many years ago by someone in our Intelligence and who knew Russia who gave stark warnings about Putin, this was decades ago and what was written left a worrying idea of this man and it turned out to be correct.
Watch out for the cornered rat, it will scratch and fight its way out. Like it did with Putin as a child. As a child Putin use to catch rats in the stairwell of the building he lived in. One day he had a rat cornered and it viciously attacked him.
I don't want to hear it. I had one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable and I don't act like these idiots. Once you're an adult you make your own choices. You know right from wrong. It's up to you to you to do the right thing. It's up to you to be a better person to turn the tide and choose to be everything your parents aren't. You can only play the blame game for so long then you have to man up and take responsibility for your actions. Period!
I don't think anything has changed except the scale of events. Also, there were plenty of assessments during their early career or education, so power players can know exactly who are they dealing with. He was positioned to fail like many before him.
Really! In that case what about Boris’s childhood, Bidens, Macrons, Scholtzes, etc? Whatever you want to say about Putin ….20 years in power 80+ % support…That tells the real story.
After 12 minutes this guy finally tells us about his problem. Once again, it’s all about gender confusion with his generation. Leave the kids alone. Keep your problems within your generation. Stop projecting onto young people. No wonder he can’t deal with strong men.
Maybe he had a bad childhood was bullied by others or he doesn't have any real close friends. He's been afraid of death by poisoning you have to ask him why he's so paranoid insecure about being alone. Ask his Doctor
When there is talk of strong men leaders and toxic masculinity leaders, particularly in the UK, why is Margret Thacther side lined? She surely deserves some credit??
There is a need for strong leadership in the world and there is nothing wrong with loving your country. The problem is that Putin is strong and evil, Trump is nothing like Putin. If Trump was President this wouldn’t be happening.
The US system wouldn't allow Trump to go that far. However, if checks were absent, then Trump would be the same as Putin. Trump is not as intellectual and does not possess a sense of geostrategic knowledge like Putin.
O SON OF SPIRIT! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes. (Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)
Who cares why is who he is?! Seriously, people, we are way pass the point of psychological analytic BS… some folks talk just to hear their own voice. Am so loosing patience with the wind bags! I.M.O….
Why use the term “strong man” for these tyrants…these are all mentally unbalanced, unhinged, sick, bullying people…NOT strong but mentally and morally WEAK! His book only encourages and praises these evil personalities by calling them strong 😔
Was Putin a kid in WW2 ? Putin wasn't born until the 50s, wasn't he ? On Sky News, Mark Austin shows Peskov two different pieces of film of a vehicle shooting at a female civilian, claiming it's the same vehicle, but it isn't. You can tell from where they are parked in each image. Peskov tries to point this out, but Mark Austin just ploughs straight on.
Nobody mentions small man syndrome, 80% contributing factor, very hard people to deal with when they have power, but we are not allowed to talk about it, that's why Europe sent french president to deal with Putin, he won't feel as intimated. Have you seen some of his shoes over the years, the heels he struggles to walk at world leader events
Not sure if Boris Johnson belongs in the same book as Putin and Xi, neither is Brexit necessarily at the same level of nationalism as the idea of Russian Mir.
I too believe that how we are nurtured or the lack of it in childhood has a lot of bearing on whether we become full or partial human beings later in life. I tend to think that mothers have more to do with this than fathers. There are a good number of serial killers who are found to NOT have the love of a biological mother in childhood. God seems to have placed a lot of instinct around the relationship of mother and child.
