US/NATO War on Russia

[David Guyatt]

Double belch.

What next I wonder, in this wonderful campaign of slagging off Putin and Russia because he won't bend over for the US?

Putin has 'some form of autism' Pentagon experts conclude, after watching videos of him



UK charity says 'laughable' study is 'driven by the wilder reaches of military intelligence'

EMMA FINAMORE

Thursday 05 February 2015

Vladimir Putin has "an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions", a report has claimed.

The Office of Net Assessment a Pentagon think tank in the US published findings in 2008 and 2011, and said the Russian President has "an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions."

Brenda Connors, an expert in movement pattern analysis at the US Naval War College in Newport, wrote: "The Russian President carries a neurological abnormality."
The think tank concluded that Putin's "neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy," after studying him in videos, and that his authoritarian obsession with "extreme control" is a way of overcompensating for his condition.
The report cites Dr. Stephen Porges as concluding that "Putin carries a form of autism". However, Mr Porges has since said he has never seen the finished report and warned Connor's team should "back off saying he has Asperger's".
The Pentagon thinks the findings could explain Putin's authoritative styleJane Harris, Director of External Affairs and Social Change at the UK's National Autistic Society (NAS) told the Independent:
"This kind of speculative diagnosis is fraught with risks and is unhelpful. Autism is a complex condition and a diagnosis should only ever be made following a thorough, holistic face-to-face process involving both the individual and the diagnostician.
"According to accounts in the media, the study authors themselves backed off from confirming their diagnosis because they were not able to perform a brain scan on the Russian president'.
"We are not aware of any definitive diagnostic tool that involves a brain scan.
"This study is driven by the wilder reaches of military intelligence and will seem laughable to parents in the UK facing the real and present challenge of getting a proper diagnosis for their child."
David Cameron and Vladimir Putin shake hands at the G20 in BrisbaneThe ONA was created in 1973 by the Nixon administration.
Its Facebook page says: "Essentially, the ONA develops and coordinates net assessments of the standing trends, and future prospects of US military capabilities and potential, in comparison with those of other countries or groups of countries, so as to identify emerging or future threats or opportunities for the United States.
"Think of it as an internal planning think tank for the Department of Defence."