Posted on 05/02/2022 11:58:17 AM PDT by dennisw
An ex-KGB agent who defected to the West has said 'paranoid' and 'insane' Putin is likely to be suffering from Parkinson's and early stage dementia, but added that members of his inner circle may be kept in the dark about his physical state.
Boris Karpichkov former KBG agent who defected from Russia, told The Sun that Putin was 'insane' and becoming 'obsessed by paranoid ideas'. 'He sees literally everyone, including those inside the Russian security services and even inside his close inner circle, to be "traitors"', he said. Putin may be keeping those closest to him unaware of his health difficulties, in under to maintain his strongman image
Former KGB-agent listed Parkinson's, cancer, or another medical condition as an explanation for his odd behavior, adding to the list of commentators speculating over Putin's health. 'I am not a medic myself... but there is serious concern that Putin is suffering from numerous physical health conditions - possibly from sport injuries during his younger years,' ---. 'This is along with some issues which affect older people - such as Dementia in early stages.'
Karpichkov said Russian president is known among his circle as obsessive over details, with reputation for remembering faces and conversations. 'He is so suspicious and so obsessed with paranoid ideas that he can be now compared with Stalin tyrant,' ---. Bloated Putin was seen gripping a table, slouching in his chair during a televised meeting with defense minister Sergei Shoigu.
Stalin's last years were marked by paranoia and mistrust. He had one of his doctors imprisoned after he suggested the dictator should retire from political life to try and improve his health. By 1952, the Kremlin was rounding up doctors and torturing them for allegedly plotting to kill senior politicians, resulting in most medical professionals fleeing the country.
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LOL I really did laugh out loud at that one.
When did this guy defect?
But I suspect any paranoia is due to his realization that the FSB and military were blowing smoke up his butt about Ukraine and his military's preparedness.
Your president can’t tie his own shoes.
“Likely”, “maybe”,”suggesting”, “I’m not a medical expert”.
A complete fabrication.
Sam here I am not buying anything from current or former intelligence people. They have screwed up too many times and been caught flat footed and out right lying too many times to believe anything they say.
Were I or any other Republican president to walk into the Oval office in January 2025 and the CIA/NSA/FBI/DNI/DOJ came in and presented their briefings to me I would have to say I would take ALL of it with a grain of salt. After their odious behavior with Trump all these agencies have been shown to be full of: traitors, smarmy bureaucrats and liars, I don’t think there is an honest person in the bunch.
There have been quite a few articles in the British press about Biden, and they seem to consider it well established that Biden is too senile to be calling the shots.
Finally, someone familiar with Putin’s thinking has something to say!
If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs...
“When did this guy defect?”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/former-spy-boris-karpichkov-shares-4175850
He defected 1998
AND>>>>>>>>*****>>>>>
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4629996/ex-kgb-spy-tortured-hellhole-russian-jail/
LIVING HELL I was stripped naked, beaten, tortured & fed worm-filled rotten potatoes in hellhole Russian prison, says ex-KGB spy
Feb 7 2022
AN EX-KGB officer has revealed how he was stripped naked, brutally beaten and tortured in a hellhole Russian jail.
Ex-double agent Boris Karpichkov, 62, told how he was confined to a tiny cell for 23 hours a day and fed a diet of worm-infested rotten potatoes while being held behind bars.
Mr Karpichkov told The Sun Online how he was held without charge and tortured in the notorious Matrosskaya Tishina prison in Moscow in April 1997.
It came before he defected to the UK with a suitcase full of spy secrets - and now lives in hiding as he is on Vladimir Putin’s death list.
He was held in the jail - known for several gruesome high-profile deaths - for nearly three months after a row over payments he claimed were owed to him by the KGB.
He was kept in hellish conditions for more than two months with no charges brought against him - and none of his relatives knew where he was at first.
The former spook was eventually placed under house arrest in Latvia before he managed to flee to the UK on a fake passport he had been supplied with during his time serving as a major in Russia’s KGB and its FSB successor.
Mr Karpichkov said he was put in a cell with a criminal who had been arrested for three murders during his time in the jail.
In a dossier provided to The Sun Online, he recalled: “Immediately after my arrest I was held in a metal cage - similar to one that is used for wild animals - with thick metal bars in the detention facility in Moscow.
The British press is also totally OK with Asian grooming gangs diddling the pre-teen females of England.
That gives us a "read" on their judgment and opinions.
Cool. Nice retort.
You have had a lot of experience with abdominal cancer spreading to the bones?
I didn’t think so.
Go back to you babushka wearing mommy.
He’ll go and launch nukes as demented he is.
(I don't think any of us has a definitive answer to that, but that is the question the CIA should be asking)
Yes, the Politburo has me assigned to a small, sleepy town in the Mid Atlantic where I spend my day watching baseball and reading Neocon insanity. I'll be asleep by 9.
“He’s a rocket scientist compared to that idiot (Biden).”
so is a turnip.
Then it’s unlikely he has current information kept away from Putin’s “inner circle”.
You know, Pooti bears a resemblance to Phil Collions.
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