I shoulda copped to that earlier (we're all amateur shrinks now/a necessity in the Land of the One-eyed sleepwalkers.)

Those who lust after That-many 000,000s Rubles/$$ (beyond just the ordinary cupidity of our inner-Nazi) are all-about conspicuous affluenza; clearly such sociopaths presume that envy of their obscene-scale loot will trump the disgust engendered by their hubris. (Throw in KGB.. his early-on Seminary-training. and always in the background: all those nukes he can command.)

Were his mask ever massively-pierced via general (thus local too) humiliation? ... ???

Methinks the Prez's official Head-of-State Psych-warfare cadre had best remind BHO that the phrase critical mass is not just about nukes per se: it's also ~ re Fahrenheit 451 kindling temp for his selling "The Russian Peeple" that Russia's Honor is at stake, and 100 Vindicator bombers are preparing to defend Mother Russia against these closing-in, conniving Yankee Imperialists.

I well recall October '62 .. and Khrushchev had a personal-fuze too ... it is a Lousy time for the dis-US to be so permeated with its current lunatics in places high and low :-/

Light a candle.. even if you think you don't believe in meta- anything.