in his 1920 highly cited landmark essay “Beyond the pleasure principle“, Freud wrote about the dark tendency of the human specie towards self-destruction that could help to explain Bloodymir Putin’s war on Ukraine if only he was not too much of a coward, a coward-in-chief who unsurprisingly still needed to stage fake macho stunts and now lives in constant fear of being poisoned by his own people.
Back in 2007 there was an incident during a meeting between Merkel and Putin, afterward, the German Chancellor told the press “I understand why he has to do this — to prove he’s a man”. In the end of 2019, twelve years after that incident Zelenskiy’s famous sitcom “The servant of the people” was canceled in Russia just because it contain a joke about Putin which means that the notorious Russian coward isn´t even man enough to take a joke.
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