if he has some skin in the game then he will hesitate to play mumblty-peg
“Damn it, they’re supposed to be on the hook next to the fridge - I told you never to move those!”
“Did you check the junk drawer honey? What about in the garage with your fishing stuff?”
The USSR, post-Stalin, tried to avoid giving the Premier unlimited power. They'd had that with Stalin, and it didn't end well. That may not have persisted into the Putin era.
I wish I could see reasons to think like that. All I can see is a psychopathic megalomaniac.
i am assuming he is motivated to not die; im assuming that he must feel as if others believe he is powerful.
i am assuming that if he cant actualize these motivations, or enjoy the spoils of his efforts, he will lash out irrationally.