He is clearly nuts now. He believes he was mistreated and should have been a general. That made him full of bitterness and hatred toward the US.
When intelligent people turn into kooks they do so in spectacular fashion because their high intelligence allows them to rationalize their madness.
His track record here is being constantly and ridiculously wrong about everything.
“The battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over, all of the Ukrainian troops there have been largely surrounded and cut off. You have a concentration down in the Southeast of 30 or 40,000 of them, and if they don’t surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them.”
Yes this line of thinking was parroted for months here and it was obvioulsy fake news. And not a one of them will admit it they were suckered into believing it.