Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "What an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting Reveals About ‘Vladimir Putin’s War’ | Putin's Road to War | FRONTLINE" video.

This wasn't anything about the advisors advising Putin, this was about them telling Putin what he wanted to hear and it was easy to see the fear they showed in their body language and clearly just going on that, this is Putin's war not Russia's war but for this to get resolved, it's going to take these kinds of people that are close to Putin to become brave and do something about it otherwise it could be all their necks on the line if they leave it too late and the Russian people rise up with how bad things are getting in the country. Either way, I think Putin is finished no matter what happens in Ukraine, there are some lines you don't cross and I can't see how he can recover from this.
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Jim English Not all Russians are to blame, many see him for what he is but it's clear that enough Russia are to blame for Putin being in power, after all, there has to be enough support in Russia for Putin to hold power, those are the ones to blame here.
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@harrietharlow9929 I've never understood why anyone in power would want advisor that don't advise but tell him what he wants to here like we saw in the video. It's pointless and just self deluding, it's clear to see what's happened to Putin and this happens to a lot of dictators, the longer they are in power, they get closed off from reality, they surround themselves with yes mean and start feeding into their own delusions and paranoia of how things are and then they act on that, hence why he's miscalculated the response from the west and even the response from the people of Ukraine. If I was someone in power, I would want people advising me how things are and not how I want them to be and this is a major flaw dictators have, they surround themselves with yes mean that are scared of telling them anything they don't want to know.
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