by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:
Like Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), Putin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) has two forms.
Type I: Those who believe [Trump/Putin] can do little or nothing wrong. People in this class are reverent and loyal to a fault. They believe in wild conspiracies if that’s what it takes to support their position. They make excuses or deny any mistakes their man makes.
Type II: Those who believe [Trump/Putin] can do little or nothing right. People in this class challenge anything [Trump/Putin] do whether it makes any sense or not.
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Twice in the same day I have been accused of being extreme Right wing and extreme Left wing. I have been accused of being a Trump lover and having TDS. I coined the variants, I and II in response.
Today, it happened again with Putin. I made a statement that the US fomented this mess with Maidan Lane meddling and John McCain flying to Ukraine preaching entry of Ukraine in NATO.
Every time I make such statements, and I have made them repeatedly, I get accused of being a Putin Lover. And twice today I have been accused of being a Neocon simply for proposing Putin has made mistakes.
In response, I coined the term PDS.
US Meddling
I am sick of US meddling that nearly always backfires: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq come immediately to mind. Going back much further, the CIA and UK sponsored a coup in Iran. Much of the Mideast mess stems from that.
There is no war the neocons don’t support. There is no US involvement that I do support unless the US is directly attacked. I would not have sent weapons to Ukraine. Oops, that makes me a Putin Lover.
Putin was not justified in blasting Ukraine with missiles. Oops, that makes me a neocon.
If you have not gotten the message, I do not support wars. The curious result is that I am simultaneously a neocon, a Putin lover, and a Volodymyr Zelenskyy lover.
Putin Deserves Zero Praise
As for Putin and his muscles, he is proving to be a very poor military commander. Russian missiles are now routinely, knocked down. And they are being aimed non-military targets at a time when he should be focused on attacking military targets. How stupid is that?
Those with PDS Type I defend Putin’s actions as if two wrongs make a right. They also concoct preposterous theories explaining the aborted coup by Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
It is delusional to believe Putin is winning anything from this. But those with PDS Type I can never accept their beloved can do anything wrong despite the fact he totally f’d up the invasion of Ukraine, is running out of missiles, and had resorted to cheap drones from Iran.
Putin underestimated the resolve of Kyiv. He underestimated US military support. Oops again. Such statements make me a neocon and/or a Volodymyr Zelenskyy lover.
No Winners
In my post yesterday, Prigozhin Aborts His Russian Coup 125 Miles Short of Moscow I stated ” I see no winners in this deal.”.
Today, the Wall Street Journal headline stated “Wagner’s Aborted Mutiny Leaves No Winners in Russia“
Someone with PDS Type I replied that “proves” I am wrong. His “proof” implies the WSJ is wrong about everything. Sorry, no one right or wrong all the time.
Knowing the Unknowable
Those with PDS Type I are now shouting, “See, I told you so”, when Prigozhin backed down.
I said there was a chance his coup would succeed. People do not understand words. There was a chance and a good one, IMO. I never defined the words “good chance” but I never said “odds on”. That it didn’t happen makes me no more wrong than suggesting a 3 or a 4 might happen in craps, but getting a 7 instead.
Ha ha. You said there was a chance of a 3 or a 4. You were wrong.
No one really knows what’s going on, including me, and you. Putin himself does not fully know what’s going on.
Of course, if you have PDS Type I, this is all planned and Putin knows what he is doing, despite the fact that he seriously f’d up the Ukraine invasion. Had he stopped in Donbas instead of being blasted back to Donbass he might have pulled the invasion off.
