Especially since he has kids, he'll be leaving them an extra bad legacy, even in his own country.

You might not think it’s rational but it’s fairly common. Saying it’s irrational is explaining away pretty common behaviour with “they aren’t like me so they’re idiots”.

Except it’s more your own empathy that’s lacking for understanding another perspective.

> The seven characteristics of life include:

> responsiveness to the environment;

> growth and change;

> <<ability to reproduce;>>

> have a metabolism and breathe;

> maintain homeostasis;

> being made of cells; and.

> <<passing traits onto offspring.>>

Putin is defective, he's making the lives of his own kids harder.

I mean, I don't even need to say he's defective, it's obvious. He's a narcissist.

There can be no empathy for autocrat narcissists. They don't have any and they don't deserve any.

Plus, the former head of Mi6 warned not to try and corner Putin, since if he were to be personally severely threatened, he wouldn't hesitate to turn to using nuclear weapons and take the whole world down with him if he were to ever be ousted form power by the west.

Never gonna happen because:

1) The majority of the Russian population is still supportive of him, thinking they're fighting to liberate Ukraine from nazis and that the western sanctions are in place because the west hates them, rather than consequences for their leaders' war crimes

2) Like the former head of Mi6 said, Putin is so mad that if threatened, he's more likely to be ok with seeing the whole world get nuked, instead of going down like Gaddafi did, which is why the west is going so soft on him.

That's ok. Putin doesn't have a big red button, he actually needs a lot of people to be ok with committing a suicide, and it is likely they won't.

And nuked world might be better than world in which Russian can do what it wants.