Noticed that someone took the time to attempt to analyze the Putin "altered state of reality"---but with Orwell an interesting twist to say the least. Seems I am not the only one saying "altered state of reality" and Putin in the same sentence.
The article below is really interesting as it does go to the heart of this "altered reality problem" Putin is having--I really do believe he is truly believing his own propaganda which is extremely dangerous.
Orwell can help us understand what is happening to us as if we make a good-faith effort to use Russian media official sources to try to understand the world. Russian propaganda about Ukraine is today’s doublethink: it requires that people, as Orwell put it, “hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing both of them.” Russian propaganda daily pounds out two sides to every story, both of which are false, and each of which contradicts the other.
That is why he has not taken any off ramp or exit offered to him by the West--he simply does not "see" them--because in his "altered state" he is in fact "winning".
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.VAg6hWD8JMv
Core thesis:
After all, every attempt thus far at negotiation and cease-fire has been accompanied by a Russian escalation, to the point where we can be certain that this is not a coincidence. If Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with other leaders, we must simply expect that this is cover for the latest outrage, as with the entrance of Russian troops, armor and artillery during the recent talks in Minsk.
But we need to dig a bit deeper into the plot for the three concepts needed to understand this very strange war, in which Putin has radicalized Russian politics, destroyed a European peace order, challenged Europeans’ assumptions about their entire future — and even threatened nuclear war. Every reason proffered to explain a war that is pointless to the point of nihilism is obviously bogus or self-contradictory or both. To grasp this horrible event in which people are killing and dying for no discernible reason, we need to remember some key concepts from Orwell: Eurasia, doublethink and learning to love Big Brother.
To take these thoughts a step further Putin in his recent school visit and interview basically condemned the Communists and Lenin directly for allowing the Russian Army to fail during WW1.
An unusual step for a former KGB COL who owed his career to the Communist Party especially since the KGB was "the Sword and Shield of the Party".
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...n-disses-lenin
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