He might, as an atheist for whom there’s no heaven nor hell. He sure made no paradise for himself (despite his humongous mansion), nor for the Russian people. So he might decide to go down History by doing the Unthinkable. Who is gonna stop him? There are hardliners in the Kremlin who are even worse than he is. Come to think of it, the Chinese might. Xi won’t be happy with the situation escalating in the Ukraine if this will cost China economically. Think of the avalanche of EVs he hopes to export to the US and the EU without any trade barriers… Or will History repeat itself? Putin rules like a tsar 2.0. The Russian imperial army disintegrated after the Russian Revolution broke out. Below: fraternization of German and Russian soldiers after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1917. Will Russian soldiers, drafted against their will, and Ukrainian soldiers shake hands?