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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Other recent articles I’ve read are clear about stomach cancer and his desire to do the surgery after the May 9 WW2 victory celebration. Apparently they wanted to do the surgery the end of april. In one of the posts with 3 photos, one photo showed him gripping the table with both hands and clenching his jaw like he was in considerable pain. Another photo showed him with one hand on the table and slumped like he was exhausted. Also saying that he has appointed his good friend, don’t have the name, from their spook days. That man is 70 years old.
Several years ago I read a Biden Wiki about his life. About 20 years ago he had brain surgery twice for some problem, I think it was an aneurism. He had some permanent cognitive difficulties after those surgeries. My husband died at home after my caring for him after 10 years with progressing Altzheimers, he was 75. Since a lot of people have Alzheimers including possibily Biden and Putin, I am going to go into some detail about the progression of my husband’s decline. If you are not interested skip it.
Thirteen years before his death, he worked all day as a teacher, then drove 3 hours to meet me where I was working a trade show. As we ate a late supper he asked, “Is my mother still alive.” “No, she died 10 years ago.” “Oh.” Soon after his education program moved to a new school and he had trouble functioning because there was too much new information to remember well. He had to retire at age 66. I took over the family financial management. My mother died about this time. When we drove to clean out her storage unit every 30 seconds he would ask when the next turn was. I had no license, and he drove until 10 months before he died. His reflexes and understanding of traffic laws were fine, but I had to tell him where to turn. His license renewal was needed, but in the exam he could not say the word green when shown a light although he still recognized it meant GO. I finally got my licnse. My father died 2 years after my mother. We drove many times to NJ to work on his rental properties. My husband still recognized places we had traveled years before to visit, but could not remember new places we were now passing. Once there was a huge flock of geese blocking the road we had to carefully drive through. He did remember that place subsequently.
Five years before he died we drove a thousand miles to decide whether to keep or sell property he and brother had inherited. We decided to exchange that land for a place closer to home. We went there often and and slept under an open shed roof. He would wake up and say “I have to go to work.” “No, dear, you are retired, go back to sleep.” After a lot of this I decided, OK, you want to work we’ll make this shed into a cabin. He agreed, and since we had no electricity, I would mark a board, show him the line and ask him to saw it. This included 2 x 10” timbers. He could do any job that required continuous action, like sawing or sweeping. He could not remember an instruction for more than 15 seconds. I was repairing roof damage and he kept moving the ladder intil I yelled, “Put it back I’m working up here.” He could not see me from the ground. We built a 13’ by 16’ cabin with no power tools.
Back home , 6 years before he died I could tell him 3 things I needed at the store and he would buy them. Then I had to start giving him a short list. Finally at about 4 years he would stop to talk to a friend and forget he had the list and come home. Three years before he died we moved to a nearby house we also owned which had the bathroom attached to the bedroom. He would awake at 4 am and want to go out and walk the city streets. It was easier to keep him in with the bedroom door locked. Sometimes I had to struggle to get him to stay in bed. He was 5’11”, I was 5’4”. Finally, he would ask, “Why are we doing this (struggling)?” “I don’t know, dear, lets just go back to sleep.” “OK” I kept giving him his supplements and he was able to help carry groceries from the store and wall up the steps to the door, and upstairs from kitchen to bedroom. Seven months before he died he developed bathroom issues. He was also taking medication for paranoid perceptions, thinking the neighbors were a problem. By this time he did not talk much, but could answer simple questions. I don’t know if he knew I was his wife. One day we were watching the news and a politician he didn’t like made a pronouncement. “Bull shxx,” my husband said, so at least part of his mind still was working. Four months befoe he died he had a seizure. Afterwards we went to the VA hospital where he was being treated and discussed his advanced directives with 2 doctors. They had me ask him if he wanted special treatment. He did not understand them, but when I asked, “Do you want to stay at home, or get IVs and tube feeding at the hospital. “NO.” he exclaimed. We did this twice, and when he became unable to walk 6 days before he died, I was able to get final phone instructions from those doctors, and from a hispice aid who visited daily.
What I learned is that a person with Alzheimers can do a lot more than is evident from their ability to talk, if they are guided according to their remaining abilities and wishes. Medication for Alzheimers and mental issues, and supplements can be very helpful in delaying total helplessness. Probably primitive man could sit with family, make his arrows or prepare food, and do other simple useful tasks. As the end approached, while they could still walk OK, they might go out in the night to pee, get lost and die. Thus they no longer would be a burden to the tribe in their final helplessness. Therefore, I think the Alzheimers gene served a useful purpose where food was a scarce resource. My husband always wanted to go out when he was hungry and I would have to give him a snack, and watch him carefully while I finished cooking a meal. He was mostly Scotch with some Canadian indian.
In terms of leadership, there is a big difference. Putin has always been a mean, suspicious adult. Biden does not seem to have much in the way of meanness. Putin will be hard to control, Biden not so much. Then the question becomes, who is trying to do the needed control.
That’s a tldr post. I will read it when I have the time and willingness.
Find the one where he is gripping the table with both hand and clenching his jaw, looks like in considerable pain.
Until Putin purges over 2/3 his military officers, sends millions of people to gulags and kills millions more via forced starvation he is nowhere near as paranoid as Stalin.
Thank you for such an insightful view on this disease.
Well you certainly know what dementia is all about.
I took care of my wife for 7 years before having to put her is a nursing home. I did that because she lost control of her bowels in public and in bed, also had several falls , and started to roam.
I visit her about 5 days a week. She is doing OK physically now, but mentally it is all downhill. At least she still recognizes me as her husband.-Tom
Thanks glee’.
but mentally it is all downhill. At least she still recognizes me as her husband.-Tom
***My step sister has been in that position, and made the decision that once she is no longer recognized, she withdrew maximum care.
I had long since withdrawn care myself.
I believe thae fact that I kept my husband well supplied with vitamins, minerals, and other supplments kept him physically able until very near the end. In fact I guessed he would probably die soon after he could no longer take these nutrients. About 3 months before he died, he could no longer swallow them, and although I tried mashing them and putting them in apple sauce or yogurt, that did not work so well as he objected to the flavor and texture. We brought my mother to stay with me when she could no longer function in her assisted living home. She had stopped going down stairs to eat and was snacking in her room. She had cracked lips, bruises and sores on her body and toe corns. She had not been taking the vitamin packets I made for her once a month when I went to do her financial work as she was nearly blind from Glaucoma. She lived with me about 6 months until the mitral valve replaced with a pig valve a decade earlier completed failing. However, I did improve her nutrition and she took the supplements I gave her. Her lips healed, the corn fell off her toe, the bruises faded, and her skin no longer looked like she had a deficiency disease. Also, she began to be able to see things across the street dimly. My great aunt returned home from hospitalization for a broken bone at age 93. The doctor gave no recommendations for anything nutritional, not even calcium and Vitamin D for bone healing. She died soon after. My husband’s mother was in a hospital for dementia for at least 3 years before she died. Both my mother and my husband were adament, they did not want to die in a hospital. So, as the retired sibling mother became my responsibility as well as my husband.
I completely agree your supplement and food approach kept your loved ones going.
These same Putlims have fawned over the foreign press for decades here on FR over the indisputable fact that the foreign press is far more reliable than the American MSM.
The German press correctly reporting on Palin's campaign; the Israeli press correctly reporting on anti-Obama sentiment; the Oz press correctly reporting on Gore sexually harrassing a licensed massage therapist; and more recently, Putlims praising The Daily Mail for revealing Xiden's frailty when he nearly broke his neck on AF1's stairs:
Nothing to see here: How most of the left-leaning US media totally ignored Biden's Air Force One stumble - while the foreign press did their job for them, UK Daily Mail | March 20 2021 | KEITH GRIFFITH
So you Putlim moonbats stfu and slurp your borscht and enjoy your daily daydrinking ration of wodka. Your 2024 Soviet ballot receipt with one name on it: "Putin", will be delivered shortly, already signed with your signature, and deposited in the Москва ballot box under Putlim's desk, just like the State Farm Arena ballots in Georgia. Unfortunately, you won't be here to see my SCHADENFREUDE!
Say what you want, but he did an admirable job on those first two albums after Peter Gabriel left the band.
;)
Thanks for your post, and you deserve great credit for nursing your husband through his battle with Alzheimer’s. I’ve known families where the burden became to great (from their perspective) and the loved one was deposited into a nursing home. In my experience, they decline rapidly after being institutionalized. One of my sister-in-laws lasted barely a year and she suffered two falls (one resulting in a broken hip) while in the care of a highly-regarded facility.
Someday, I think we will get an insider account of Biden’s struggle with dementia while in the White House. It will shock a lot of people. Like many patients in severe cognitive decline, he has good days and many bad ones. We’ll eventually discover what drugs/treatments were used to keep him propped up and looking at the teleprompter. It won’t be a pretty picture.
I believe those weekend trips to Delaware are being used to treat the various conditions he’s suffering from. The USSS has conveniently “lost” visitor logs to his Delaware residences, so we don’t know who’s coming and going. I’m guessing his regular visitors include medical specialists and they don’t want their names appearing on the White House logs.
Thanks for your post, and you deserve great credit for nursing your husband through his battle with Alzheimer’s. I’ve known families where the burden became to great (from their perspective) and the loved one was deposited into a nursing home. In my experience, they decline rapidly after being institutionalized. One of my sister-in-laws lasted barely a year and she suffered two falls (one resulting in a broken hip) while in the care of a highly-regarded facility.
Someday, I think we will get an insider account of Biden’s struggle with dementia while in the White House. It will shock a lot of people. Like many patients in severe cognitive decline, he has good days and many bad ones. We’ll eventually discover what drugs/treatments were used to keep him propped up and looking at the teleprompter. It won’t be a pretty picture.
I believe those weekend trips to Delaware are being used to treat the various conditions he’s suffering from. The USSS has conveniently “lost” visitor logs to his Delaware residences, so we don’t know who’s coming and going. I’m guessing his regular visitors include medical specialists and they don’t want their names appearing on the White House logs.
Madam,
You have my deep and abiding sympathies. And there will be a special place in Heaven for you having stuck by your husband for so many years when so many selfish people these days would have left.
My sincerest regards and thank you for your husband’s service.
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