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Narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy/NIHILISM:
Mass shooters don't care that they're going to die, so long as they butcher as many lives as they can: competitive nihilism.
Negative-sum game ( as opposed to competitive-narcissism, zero-sum game, or win-win-alliance/positive-sum game ).
Some "mass shooters" fire bullets at individual-lives, others fire legislations at entire-populations through legislative-authority.
The scale's different, but the "nobody is going to be alive after me: I'm the greatest & the last word" motivation is the same, between the 2 kinds.
Accelerationism is another variant of the same thing.
It is incompetent to presume that all others in the world are playing zero-sum game, just because moneyarchy pretends that that is the ONLY mode there is: that is just our cultural-brainwashing.
Negative-sum players, like Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, etc, are real, & are committed to making ABSOLUTELY certain that there's nobody significant after them: only butchery & carrion will remain, same as normal individual-scale mass-shooters, just through different means, is all..
( I believe that Hamas's unconscious strategy was to get Netanyahu to genocide the Palestinians, to "martyr" them, so that the total Islamic region would see Israel's psychopathic-sadism, & lose their being deterred by Israel's threat-of-violence, to the point that they simply wouldn't care anymore, how much Israel did, they'd have no choice but to annihilate it.
I believe that not only did Israel take the bait, but their shamelessness in attacking other countries, their impervious narcissism, is enforcing that the inevitable backlash happen.. possibly late this year, now.. .. much quicker than I'd been believing ( I'd thought it would be 3-ish more years, before the backlash annihilated Israel, .. but with Netanyahu willing to strike in any neighbouring-country, .. he moved the script up drastically ).
In the same week, perhaps a month ago, I read an Israeli Jew's article about how approximately 45% of the Palestinians they surveyed, wanted Israeli Jews exterminated.. but of course he never asked about Israeli Jews wanting the extermination of Palestinians..
& IN THE SAME WEEK, I'd come across an article by a Palestinian about how approximately 45% ( -/+2% or 3%, for both articles, btw: it was functionally identical ) of the Israeli Jews they surveyed, wanted Palestinians exterminated, but of course he never asked about his own people wanting the extermination of the Israeli Jews..
IOW, things are progressing from the considered-reasoning side of the spectrum to the only-prejudice-does-any-deciding side of the spectrum, exactly as prejudice wants. )
Putin's got less & less to lose, as he gets older, right?
Taking out more of the world & dying a little early, .. is looking better & better to him?
It was the nonfiction books of CIA-spook "John Braddock", btw, which identified that to understand the context's strategy one HAS TO understand which of the 3 categories-of-game that the players are playing, if you want to dig into that trilogy.
Aweful writing-style ( trance-induction-pushing can go eat rocks, in his books, & in "Ten Types of Human", too ), but important points.
IF you've got a competitive-nihilist running your country, THEN there are inevitable consequences of that.
IF the entire world has been willing to accommodate that competitive-nihilism & competitive-narcissism RULE THE WHOLE DAMN PLANET, then we aren't viable, species-wide, & this century may well be terminal for humankind.
The Great Filter, & no matter how many naive-idiots pretend "we already survived it!", until humankind has become coherent, AND has changed-in-nature to be coherently-proactive ( and that isn't a guaranteed-to-happen change ), then we haven't won yet.
I believe that no more than 1..1.5% of humankind will survive this century, IF humankind wins.
However, if the competitive-nihilists win .. then this world's future is complete silence/extinguishment of humankind.
As a ninja pointed out, in his book "Kenjutsu": all kenjutsu presumes that the opponent will immediately block your strikes, but if they don't care whether they survive, then your strike to get them to divert their strike .. won't divert their strike,
& then you both die.
If they don't care if they die, then all your training-reflexes are now wrong-game instincts.
Humankind's instincts are completely wrong-game, for dealing with the mechanisms & paradigms & people that humankind has allowed to rule the world.
The specific individual-players are not the problem: they are only the symptom.
Humankind allowed the wrong GAMES to rule the world, & is sooo entrenched in the cultural-brainwashing that it'll fight-to-the-death to protect its own anti-survival "function".
Yes, Putin is succeeding.
Not at gaining Russia anything, but at costing everybody-except-Putin as much as he can.
There's a Republican senator that's already put in a bill to get the US out of NATO, & Trump wants NATO gutted, so that's only a matter of time.. & the EU that won't obey Trump is going to be rampaged-on by Putin when Trump's rampaging-on Canada ( which is why he wants Greenland: Alaska, mainland US, Greenland, navy & airforce, & he can destroy Canada's independence MUCH quicker, than if we can still trade with the EU ).
Putin & Trump are both playing negative-sum games, same as mass-shooters are.
They're winning, by their-game's rules..
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