What Motivates a 69 Year Old - Putin

[baggieal]

With all his wealth I can’t understand why Putin at 69 would want to slaughter and smash countries and civilians. Why?

I am 58 and accepting that I am coming towards the last third of my life - if lucky.

I just don’t get it especially as Putin will only have 20 years or so left if he’s lucky! Really can’t understand the motivation at that age! Does he not want to enjoy his money or children? Really don’t get it!

Already I am looking forward to enjoying life and more holidays but don’t get this power trip at such an old age and crushing the younger generation!

Any thoughts!

[Leicesterbaggie]

How can any 'normal' person understand what motivates an individual to kill and maim innocent men, women and children? To class him as a human being is really stretching it. What motivate him, God only knows, I certainly don't know.

[soulman101]

With all his wealth I can’t understand why Putin at 69 would want to slaughter and smash countries and civilians. Why?

I am 58 and accepting that I am coming towards the last third of my life - if lucky.

I just don’t get it especially as Putin will only have 20 years or so left if he’s lucky! Really can’t understand the motivation at that age! Does he not want to enjoy his money or children? Really don’t get it!

Already I am looking forward to enjoying life and more holidays but don’t get this power trip at such an old age and crushing the younger generation!

Any thoughts!

it's to do with power they become addicted to it and people sucking up to them.
They lose the sense of reason and they have no apathy, people with Parkinson and dementia get this.
I think he gone insane, like Hitler.

[kettering_baggie]

There are unpleasant people everywhere, we have our fair share, witness the regularity of vile murders that hit our news channels, and the abuse of young children. Put such vile people in positions of power and there you have it.

“Some humans ain’t human,
Some people ain’t kind”

Those are the opening lines of an old John Prine song, a later line goes….

“…then some cowboy from Texas, starts his own war in Iraq”. Just alter that to “then some b@stard in Moscow, starts his own war in Ukraine”.

There you have it, says it all, really.

[WBA1955]

What motivates him is pride. Eastern Ukraine had always been a part of Russia, it was called Little Russia. It never got independence until 1991 when the old Soviet Union collapsed. To an old KGB man like Putin it would have been a kick in the teeth.
He is coming up to his last days in power and he wanted to be remembered as the man who reunited Ukraine with Russia and not see it become part of NATO.
He hadn't planned for the fierce resistance Russia has met, he expected to be hailed as liberators by the majority of Ukrainians.
He is no Hitler, Hitler was the last of the great conquerors, who had the greatest and most up to date army, navy and air force the world had ever seen. Russia is struggling against a country Hitler would have gone through like a dose of salt, and actually did eighty odd years ago.
What Russia is doing is deplorable in this modern world, but Putin probably has a more justifiable reason for the invasion than the west did for invading, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Syria. It's the press that makes people think in a certain way. If we go back to the crusades where the west was as seen as barbarians by the more advanced and cultured Saracens, the Christians believed they were in the right because they were Christian and the Saracens weren't.
Maybe we shouldn't have invaded the Falklands? They belonged to Argentina originally.
We can have these debates all day, but it won't change the fact that people are still the same mentally as they were thousands of years ago, they just have more efficient ways of exterminating each other.
If you sit down and think of the billions of pounds spent on weapons of mass destruction, you realise how insane the human race actually is.

[mickd1961]

Legacy.

Amongst his own nation, it comes down to that alone.

[Dubbag]

Stalin...thats what/who.....

[Titchfieldbaggie]

Legacy.

Amongst his own nation, it comes down to that alone.

Spot on, Mick. Anyone who has retired from a position of power/autonomy, wants a legacy to be remembered by.

[Titchfieldbaggie]

What motivates him is pride. Eastern Ukraine had always been a part of Russia, it was called Little Russia. It never got independence until 1991 when the old Soviet Union collapsed. To an old KGB man like Putin it would have been a kick in the teeth.
He is coming up to his last days in power and he wanted to be remembered as the man who reunited Ukraine with Russia and not see it become part of NATO.
He hadn't planned for the fierce resistance Russia has met, he expected to be hailed as liberators by the majority of Ukrainians.
He is no Hitler, Hitler was the last of the great conquerors, who had the greatest and most up to date army, navy and air force the world had ever seen. Russia is struggling against a country Hitler would have gone through like a dose of salt, and actually did eighty odd years ago.
What Russia is doing is deplorable in this modern world, but Putin probably has a more justifiable reason for the invasion than the west did for invading, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Syria. It's the press that makes people think in a certain way. If we go back to the crusades where the west was as seen as barbarians by the more advanced and cultured Saracens, the Christians believed they were in the right because they were Christian and the Saracens weren't.
Maybe we shouldn't have invaded the Falklands? They belonged to Argentina originally.
We can have these debates all day, but it won't change the fact that people are still the same mentally as they were thousands of years ago, they just have more efficient ways of exterminating each other.
If you sit down and think of the billions of pounds spent on weapons of mass destruction, you realise how insane the human race actually is.

Factually, apparently, the Falklands were owned by France, originally. The name Malvinas comes from the people from St Malo. It's not an Argentinian construct. You make some good points.

[baggieal]

Legacy.

Amongst his own nation, it comes down to that alone.

You may be right but poor c unt!! All those millions in banks and he will be dead in around 20 odd years if not before. What’s the point in having money and not having a great life! I want to be remembered for how I brought my kids up and the opportunities they had but certainly not any money left to them. Likewise - what’s Putin done for his daughters - how much time does he spend with them - what opportunities has he given them. Leaving them money I am sure won’t be met with - wow what a great father as money is meaningless in the scheme of things.

I don’t even know why he’s got millions in banks everywhere. He can’t enjoy it when he’s dead and at 69 the clock is certainly ticking. Tick tock - tick tock!