I`ve just rediscovered a favourite writer of mine... Here`s something from an old book I`m reading anew:
Henry the Eight /.../ had syphilis /.../ And that extreme fanaticism /.../ that`s typical obsessive syphilitic behaviour /.../ There is literally no one more likely to move mountains than your megalomaniac syphilitic. Not that it lasts forever /.../ If you meet a syphilitic megalomaniac, duck. Duck quickly, because they can be dangerous. There`s a theory that Hitler was one /.../ Just remember Henry the Eight chopped off a lot of heads.
Dick Francis
Y`know what? The above makes one suspect Putin might be one, too. Well, back in the late USSR, venereal patients used to get compulsory treatment, nobody asked for their consent, even if they be high functionaries. But during the last few decades of democracy, the Self-Appointed President might well have managed to get syphilis, and refused treatment, and have reached the megalomania stage. Which means nobody and nothing could make him stop his crazy war. Bar the G.P.I. stage.
The world can only hope that comes soon...