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Actually, I think it does. He's a trained KGB agent, used to acting calm and collected on the outside. In the KGB, he would have been involved in things that would numb him emotionally. Cold, calculating, ruthless....but not crazy.
Has anyone been watching
Putin vs The West on BBC? (Episode 2 tonight if anyone is interested). That very point was made about him in Episode 1. He's a risk taker, but a
calculated risk taker. In that respect he's perfectly rational