I’m not someone to roll with rumors without evidence…but it seems pretty clear from here that, yes, some things are definitely medically and neurologically wrong with Putin’s body.
There’s no way any strongman would show these symptoms if he could possibly help it.
This adds further potential explanation to his dogged determination to invade and occupy Ukraine. If he is staring down the barrel of a condition that is debilitating and not avoidable by current science, then he would definitely start thinking of legacy. And as an authoritarian strongman, being able to take credit as a restorer of the Russia he now identifies with himself could be key. And something he would then pursue with desperation as his mortality and finiteness is brought into ever more sharp and painful focus.
