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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo he has tantrums, eh?
That descriptor has been used often with regard to his outbursts. It is a special word, reserved for nearly-violent or violent actions taken by severely acutely disturbed individuals. Now I myself am a volatile person at times when under extreme stress. I inherited my mothers anger Gene, but I can only recall three or four times in my adult lifetime that I had behaved in a fashion which could remotely be described as a tantrum.
More and more his behavior can be described as Hitlerian And his retreat to the bunker, while a wonderful literary metaphor, remarkably parallels the actions and behavior of the Dictator. I believe that he operates on such a primitive level that books about Hitler imprinted in his brain, and directly affect his behavior without his consciousness perceiving it as such. He is dissociated from reality, and is, like the coronavirus, becoming exponentially worse. I have come to the conclusion that he has internalized Hitler and the Third Reich and may see himself as the alter ego, or even The chosen mechanism of the reincarnation of that evil. For some comparison, when I was young I idolized certain movie actors film roles such as Paul Newmans, because he was insightful, smart, cool, and tongue-in-cheek debonair. This guy idolized the conquerors and the fascists and saw the advantages in being a criminal, Associating with the criminal element, and building an empire albeit as false an empire as the movie set of the film Cleopatra.
The level of mental and emotional pathology is extraordinary.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He's a tweaker.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Dust off your books about the last throes of the Third Reich.
This will also explain the behavior of the people closest to him as well as the GOP.
The Nazi party became more dangerous after it was crystal clear the war was lost. And the rest of the total destruction of that country was utterly senseless, but it was on purpose.
brush
(53,794 posts)He thought, just as trump does, that he knew more than the generals and frequently overruled their decisions or made his own poor decisions, like opening a second front into Russia. He forgot about the Russian winter though.
We don't have to worry about a war with trump though, he shies away from war just as he did the draft. Most were afraid of him starting a war with NK or Iran but all he wanted was attention and photo ops with NK, and with Iran it was just bluster. His real, actual crisis, as it comes out, was against Putin paying bounties and he looked the other way and is now saying no one told him. Nah, he's afraid to confront Putin.
Xolodno
(6,395 posts)Right after the non-aggression pact, Stalin started preparing for war with Germany. He knew it was coming, the question was, who was going to start it first. Lot of production was moved to the other side of the Urals and they knew Nazi Germany had the quality edge on military equipment...so they focused on quantity..."quantity is a quality of its own".
Or as a friend put it when we play FPS games, "accuracy through massive ammunition expenditure". Funny thing is, we both subscribed to this philosophy, we got the cheap guns with cheap ammo and although we had a hard time hitting the target, we emptied our magazines and killed the other guy while he was still trying to fire off a second or third shot.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Anyone who tried to desert from the Russian front was said to have been shot dead on the spot.
There was a good documentary on the battle for a key Russian city, if the Germans won it, the eastern war was basically over, there was no real resistance to Moscow. Stalin gave the order that no man could back down one centimeter, what then took place is one of the most brutal, lethal and prolonged fights in history, wounded men froze to death unattended, but those capable of fighting fought on. The vaunted German army of the East was broken in that battle and from then on, the fight was a retreat back toward Berlin. It must be added that the fight that the Russians and Cossacks put up was why Germany could not dedicate more resources to conquering Britain, if the war in the East had ended in Germany's favor fast, the world likely would look vastly different today.
Xolodno
(6,395 posts)...it takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)Al Stewart
Blue Owl
(50,443 posts)n/t
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)If shes a mental health professional she cant help but see through the lens of nature plus nurture, and I expect Spanky rolled snake eyes on both counts. Some people are more reactive from birth. Its not a terrible thing, its just a thing. If you find an environment that you can use it in, and your early years help you learn to self soothe or to look to healthy outlets for soothing, you can channel it into quite a few fields.
From the little bit I know about that family through the generations, theres so much meanness and entitlement its destroyed a lot of people. Its also created some real disasters. One in particular.
lame54
(35,295 posts)Video footage of one these outbursts
Please tell me there is
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)fell to the floor and started chewing on a rug (that is where the term "rug chewer" comes from).
marmar
(77,084 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)King Snowflake