title: Putin, Ukraine, and Fratricide
abstract: When reacting to wars and terrorist attacks, people are often in search of quick explanations, and such words as madness, inhumanity, hubris, power struggle, and others easily come to mind. Such initial impressions may still be far away from grasping the developmental, psychobiographical, group psychological, and psychohistorical roots of utter violence. Is Putin like Hitler (“Putler,” as they say in Russia), an actor forcing people to war, suffering, and collapse? Why does he mix sacral and mil
journal: Clio s Psyche