You can see lots of things about Putin, but being irrational is not one of them. Putin behavior makes lots of sense. In fact way more sense that European leade

You can see lots of things about Putin, but being irrational is not one of them. Putin behavior makes lots of sense. In fact way more sense that European leaders for example. For example: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Putin-German-nuclear-phase-out-does-not-make-any-s https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Putin-German-nuc... There is a video of that more than ten years ago. Here Putin was saying that Germany energy strategy was nuts and he was right. How stupid some leader could be to make her country dependent on outside countries for something as strategic as energy? Putin told everybody what he thought about Ukraine. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 Even the "I will push the nuclear button because I have nothing to loose" is pretty rational. It worked wonders multiple times. Just because he is our enemy now does not mean he is stupid. He is not.