Is Putin terminally ill, terminally crazy or terminally paranoid?

Whether Vladimir Putin is seriously ill with cancer, as is being reported, or progressively becoming mad in his head, the one thing that is definitely true is that he is terminally paranoid. Like all the old Cold War Leviathans, Putin is convinced that the Western world is against him, that the US-led Nato alliance is plotting every day to attack and destroy Russia and that he has enemies on every street corner. He is a KGB man from the top of his head to the end of his stubby toes and he wakes up every morning believing that he is the only man in Russia who can save the motherland. It doesn't matter how many times successive western leaders have told him that we just want a quiet life and for everyone to get on in a peaceful world, he remains convinced that the western alliance is out to get him. It wasn't helped when Joe Biden as good as said that Putin should go. Of course Putin should go and Biden was right to say that a leader who ordered the invasion of his neighbour and kill thousands of people should not be in charge any longer. But for Putin it was confirmation that even Sleepy Joe was plotting to remove him. After nearly 80 days of war in Ukraine, with Finland and Sweden now moving to join Nato, and the West's heavy weapons pouring into Ukraine to batter the Russian invasion forces, Putin will be telling himself every day: "You see, I told you so." Paranoia has consumed him throughout his life and that is a very dangerous ingredient which could spell doom and disaster for the world in the months ahead.