Other World Leaders Are Worried About Putin’s Unstable Mental State


Leading U.S. politicians, experts, and world leaders are all concerned about the mental stability of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who served under President George W. Bush, said Putin had recently been “erratic.”

“I met with him many times, and this is a different Putin,” she said Sunday. “He was always calculating and cold, but this is different. He seems erratic. There is an ever-deepening, delusional rendering of history.”

Former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper voiced similar concerns about Putin, who has grown increasingly disturbed over his failure to quickly overtake Ukrainian forces.

“I personally think he’s unhinged,” Clapper said Sunday. “I worry about his acuity and balance.”

“The concerns about Putin’s shaky mental health are particularly relevant given that he has his finger on the nuclear trigger,” he added.

Senior intelligence officials said Putin has kept to himself at his presidential compound for months interacting only with a few select advisers and cronies.

A senior national security official under President Donald Trump said when Putin met with French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month, the Russian president seemed “paranoid” and “unwilling to listen to reason.”

During the meeting in Moscow, the men sat across a very long marble table, as Macron urged Putin to stand down. After the meeting proved to be unsuccessful, Macron described Putin as “more rigid, more isolated and fundamentally lost in a sort of ideological and security drift,” according to a senior French official.

Longtime Putin ally, Czech President Milos Zeman, called Putin a “madman” after he launched the invasion.

But Rebekah Koffler, former DIA intelligence officer and author of “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America,” said that Putin is no mad man.

“Putin is absolutely not crazy. All this talk calling him crazy, it means we’re still not taking Putin seriously or understanding him,” said Koffler,

“He’s not delusional, there are no mental anomalies,” she added. “Putin is a cold-blooded, typical Russian autocratic leader and a very calculated risk-taker. He’s simply executing a plan that he has been hatching for 20 years.”

Koffler said that questioning Putin’s mental status is a cover-up for the United State’s failure to appreciate Putin’s ambitions or psychology.

Initially, President Joe Biden said the use of sanctions was meant to be a deterrent but following the invasion, he reversed course and said he didn’t actually think the economic penalties would prevent war.

“If anything, this conflict has exposed our lack of a viable counter-strategy to Putin’s well-thought-out plan,” Koffler said. “We’re grasping at straws right now.”

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