Essay: Is Vladimir Putin a manchild or a macho genius?
Foreign Policy magazine published a 2021 article entitled Putin’s Imperial Palaces Are a Manchild’s Dream which argues that Vladimir Putin is a manchild and not a macho genius filled with machismo. One of the definitions of machismo is an "exhilarating sense of power or strength."[1]
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Question: Is Vladimir Putin a manchild or a macho genius? 10 reasons to believe that Vladimir Putin is manchild who lacks machismo
See: Russia is dying out. The war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis even worse
Question: Is Vladimir Putin a manchild or a macho genius?
To help answers this question, please read the essays below:
1. Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian
3. Is Vladimir Putin a beacon of family values or a complete failure in this matter? (Explains why Putin recently became furious)
4. Vladimir Putin understimates small opponents - big time!
5. There is no evidence that Vladimir Putin plays chess
6. Why I am not bullish on Russia's future
7. Are the Russians as unhappy as they claim they are?
8. What drives Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?
9. Russian war crimes in Ukraine
10. Much to the dismay of Vladimir Putin The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future. (See also: Multipolar world fantasy)
Seemingly weak, little, Japanese girl Judo practitioner tosses Vladimir Putin to the floor
- Seemingly weak, little, girl Judo practioner tosses Vladimir Putin to the floor- video
- Viral: Little Japanese girl tosses Black belt Russian President Vladimir Putin in old video, Firstpost, December 27, 2022
- Seemingly weak, little girl Judo practioner tosses Vladimir Putin to the floor - Associated Press

Even the sissy boy Barack Obama wasn't thrown to the floor by a little girl.
8 over-the-top, macho Putin stunts that were nowhere near as impressive as they seemed
- 8 over-the-top, macho Putin stunts that were nowhere near as impressive as they seemed, Business Insider, 2019
User Conservative's international relations essays
General
- The myth of multipolarity. What do the terms unipolar, bipolar and multipolar mean as far as international relations?
- What drives Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?
- Why has the West been so successful?
- The anti-Christianity Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Xi Jinping have opposed homosexuality so this isn't a very high moral bar for China and Russia to clear
The United States
- The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future
- Is the USA an economic powerhouse and juggernaut?
China
Russia
War in Ukraine
- How long will the war in Ukraine last and what will its likely outcomes will be? A prediction on its outcomes
- The SPECIFIC MONTH OF APRIL 2022 was not a pivotal point in politics that will affect politics for 30 years
References
- ↑ Machismo
- ↑ Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’, Fortune magazine, 2022
- ↑ Seemingly weak, little girl Judo practioner tosses Vladimir Putin to the floor - Associated Press
- ↑ ‘Not a real country’ Why is Putin obsessed with Ukraine?, 2022
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- Russia Facing Population Disaster - Demographic Crisis, Employee Shortages & Economic Crisis
- Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die, The Telegraph, February 2023
- Millennials and Gen Z are blaming Putin for intensifying Russia’s baby shortfall: ‘It’s pretty bad for us’, Fortune magazine, December 3, 2022
- Dramatic Population Drop in Russia, as War, COVID and Emigration Exacerbate Declining Births, 6/03/2023