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		<title>Putin&#8217;s paranoia now becoming visible for all to see</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the KGB you&#8217;d expect someone to be a bit paranoid. Hell growing up in Russia you&#8217;d be paranoid. But a good intelligence officer usually has the ability to separate fact from fiction, and take the propaganda with a grain of salt. That&#8217;s not the case with Vladimir Putin. Putin seems to live [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.penguinsix.com/images/putin.jpg" alt="" width="250" />Growing up in the KGB you&#8217;d expect someone to be a bit paranoid.  Hell growing up in Russia you&#8217;d be paranoid.  But a good intelligence officer usually has the ability to separate fact from fiction, and take the propaganda with a grain of  salt.</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s not the case with Vladimir Putin.</p>
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<p>Putin seems to live in his own little world in his mind. Surrounded by like minded and equally paranoid advisors, Putin has a history of making rather strange comments over the years, despite first-hand knowledge in many cases that they were false.  So it should come as no surprise that today he said the entire <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7586605.stm" target="_blank">operation in Georgia was orchestrated by the United States for the benefit of one presidential candidate</a>.  Of course he didn&#8217;t specify which one, nor is he aware that most people couldn&#8217;t find Georgia on a map if they tried, but when you&#8217;re a bit off to begin with, things like this don&#8217;t really matter.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Why&#8230; seek a difficult compromise solution in the peacekeeping process? It is easier to arm one of the sides and provoke it into killing another side. And the job is done.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US president.&#8221;</p>
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<p>US officials responded diplomatically but with a growing sense of &#8216;get this guy some mental help&#8217;:</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate &#8211; it sounds not rational,&#8221; White House Spokewoman said.<br />
&#8220;Those claims first and foremost are patently false, but it also sounds like his defence officials who said they believed this to be true are giving him really bad advice.&#8221; </p>
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<p>One wonders how long his grip on power will last.</p>
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