Today’s Putin, or perhaps already yesterday’s Putin, once again showed that he is not capable of acting as an independent political will. Those who wanted or were able to see it, saw it.
People who believe in Putin’s agency, whom I would call “believers in Putin,” remained with their very strange opinion. In this opinion, belief in Putin’s almost unlimited power and his traditional personal rule somehow exists together with jokes about him as a helpless person who cannot even learn how to use a computer.
It is surprising that this obvious contradiction between these two positions even needs to be explained.
Putin lives in the age of the internet, which has entered almost everything, even Putin’s kettle and iron, used by his supposed lover and wife Alina Kabaeva. He is obviously not Stalin, who kept contact with the outside world through sudden and unpredictable phone calls to his subordinates.
Putin without the internet is like Stalin or Hitler without newspapers, the telephone and the telegraph in their time.
Imagine Stalin receiving only selected newspaper clippings and making his decisions on the basis of them. Or imagine Hitler unable to call a marshal or an admiral whenever he wanted and ask what was really happening.
Putin does not use a mobile phone. This is according to his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov. And, as we can see in the latest video of his voting, Putin is afraid even to touch the computer mouse, as if he might press a button by accident. A normal computer user is not afraid of a mouse and knows that its buttons are not activated simply by touching them.
Putin stares at the voting screen because he is clearly not used to looking at a computer monitor.
His monitor, as I found out, is a model from around 2010. It looks as if the dust is cleaned off it once every four years for another staged video of Putin voting.
Now compare the video of Putin voting with the video published by the press service of the Russian government, where Prime Minister Mishustin uses the computer mouse almost like a Dota player. In seconds he does what takes Putin minutes of tense staring at the screen and at a sheet of paper with printed hints on it.
But this is not really about who is good or bad with computers.
The point is that management and decision-making in the modern world are IMPOSSIBLE without basic competence in this area. Any other situation means dependence on the people who bring the top official PRINTED materials, and on the people who decide which materials he will see.
And do you really believe, readers, that the people who bring these materials to an incompetent Putin depend on his will?
Or does he depend on them?
I do not know how many more obvious signs are needed to show that the man in the video is not capable of making management decisions independently, because he cannot, for example, use a computer and receives specially selected PRINTED information from the people who actually control the flow of information at the highest level.
“Mad Vlad,” the supposed threat to the existence of Ukraine, Europe, and perhaps all of humanity, is afraid to touch a mouse and struggles to read text on a screen.
Moreover, “Mad Vlad” has a printed instruction on his desk, apparently explaining how to press those three unfortunate buttons.
Of course, “Mad Vlad” does not even seem able to log in, receive an SMS code, and perform the most basic actions of an ordinary user.
How can this person have any real autonomy or agency if he lacks basic skills, has no free access to information and, as an obvious logical result of this situation, cannot function as the person who makes the key decisions?
Attribution: AlexL.
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