Well isn’t that exactly the game dynamic and prisoner’s dilemma? What I don’t understand from the West was this arrogant attitude that it is unilaterally a los

Well isn’t that exactly the game dynamic and prisoner’s dilemma? What I don’t understand from the West was this arrogant attitude that it is unilaterally a losing hand for Putin, rather than a prisoner’s dilemma? Even if he is acting to his detriment, it may be very well be the most optimal of moves he could make ( in his calculus ). The idea of him being a madmen has been fluctuating in and out, but that’s only if you look at the outcome. If you consider all the outcomes, it might very well be rational ( morality is not necessarily part of the rationale ).