Inside Putin’s Mind

The main and possibly only hope for the Ukraine War to end in favor of Ukraine, is for the war to last long enough for the Russian people including their oligarchs to become a “rising tide that lifts all hopes” by breaking through Putin’s KGB mind through a sheer and shearing force.

Let me explain.

The difference between a KGB (a.k.a. spy) mind and a military mind is that a KGB mind is built upon psychological adhesions whereas a military mind is built upon psychological attachments.

Think of an adhesion, as in adhesions within the body, as something that connects two entities by a third entity that is “glued” to each entity. As such, that adhesion cannot simply be detached. It must be broken surgically or dissolved by something that selectively eats away at it without harming either of the entities it is attaching.

Similarly, spies enter into their targets not in a military manner, but by “insinuating” themselves within their targets and doing damage to them from within. This is what Putin has done to seize and maintain power. Rather than only overtly eliminating opposition, he has at times for instance insinuated himself between Alexei Navalny and his growing supporters before those supporters could become too strong.

Spies tend to be more tactical than strategic because they don’t think in the long term the way political or military people do and have trained themselves to pivot whenever running into obstacles. They also function more as an individual than as part of a team, even though they rely on support to feed them information as they pursue one of their missions. And because they’re used to functionally more individually, their minds don’t have the same checks and balances as does the military mind.

The military mind does not work by insinuating itself into its enemy from their inside out, but by devising a strategy to overcome the enemy from the outside in either through air by bombing or ground through ground forces or — and we hope this won’t happen — by nuclear bombing in an attempt to decimate its enemy from their inside out in one fell swoop.

Also the military thinks more strategically than tactically because the military whether acting on land, sea or the air achieves their objectives as a team.

If the above analogy regarding Putin’s mind being psychologically “adhesed” to not losing and not facing humiliation holds true, nothing and nobody will be able to break through using reason which may explain why any of the cease-fire talks aren’t working.

That is because Putin’s mind has possibly passed the point of no return — and past the point of all reason — and his will must be broken in the same way as he was hoping the will of the Ukrainian people and the West would have been easily broken when he started the invasion and that they would have merely rolled over when his forces entered the country.

The problem is that if Putin’s will is built upon a psychological adhesion vs. a psychological attachment, I fear he will not stop unless and until the Russian people rise up and break him from within.

I don’t think this will happen unless and until his top military are lured away from their allegiance to him.

That will only happen if an avatar of the Russian military realizes it is only attached to Putin, an attachment that can more easily be detached than an adhesion, where it remains obedient and under his control.