re: #179 No Malarkey!

Interesting thread. A former Russian foreign minister believes that Putin is not irrational, but only deluded by his own propaganda and ideology, much like Cheney and Rumsfeld in 2003.

Are the consequences and outcome in any way impacted by that distinction? It sounds a lot like saying that Qnuts and rabid antivaxers aren’t crazy, they just believe they’re own BS.