{"id":21585,"date":"2022-11-25T23:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21585"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:47:17","slug":"the-crazy-mystical-impulses-sending-putin-wild-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-crazy-mystical-impulses-sending-putin-wild-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy Mystical Impulses Sending Putin Wild in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you suspect that Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision-making process is above the creed of superstition and mythical creatures, you should know that there are psychologists, intelligence agency analysts and a jailed Yakutsk wizard out there who would beg to differ.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin and his entourage take the spirit world very seriously,\u201d says a Kremlin official who requested anonymity to ensure his security, navigating what some insiders maintain is the Russian president\u2019s Twilight Zone. \u201cIt\u2019s not a big leap of faith for a Russian to think Putin will do what\u2019s necessary to destroy anyone looking to exorcize the imaginary demons who they believe give him power.\u201d<\/p>\n

The question is, do you believe that primal evil spirits, concocted to panic delusory serfs, have entranced the 70-year-old Putin into slaughtering Ukrainians and threatening nuclear war against the West?<\/p>\n

Anna Moroz, who\u2019s spent a decade counseling Russian emigres mystified about how to accustom themselves to the West\u2019s secular ways, is about as certain of it as any clinical psychologist can be under the circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cLegendary stories play a formidable role in our national psychology and are without doubt animating Putin\u2019s actions in Ukraine,\u201d the Russian-born Moroz explains, speaking to The Daily Beast under an assumed name for fear of reprisals. \u201cThe technical term is paradoxical thinking, but I certainly don\u2019t believe reports that the man-snake Koschei Bessmertny is advising Putin from a grotto beneath the Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If you suspect that Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision-making process is above the creed of superstition and mythical creatures, you should know that there are psychologists, intelligence agency analysts and a jailed Yakutsk wizard out there who would beg to differ. \u201cPutin and his entourage take the spirit world very seriously,\u201d says a Kremlin official who requested … Continue reading The Crazy Mystical Impulses Sending Putin Wild in Ukraine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-horse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5C9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21594,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585\/revisions\/21594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}