The Pentagon's secret Putin diagnosis

February 06, 2015 02:22

Do you like watching Internet videos and then drawing broad, sweeping, pseudo-scientific conclusions about the people involved? If so, congratulations, you might be qualified to join the Pentagon's secret team investigating the nonverbal cues of powerful world leaders.

Yesterday, following Freedom of Information Act requests by a group of news organizations including Politico, the Pentagon released two studies analyzing Vladimir Putin's inner demons -- or at least those inner demons that you can observe from watching a ton of publicly available videos.

The release has brought a harsh light to the Office of Net Assessment's "Body Leads" team and its conclusion diagnosing Putin, the Russian president who likes to take shirtless horseback rides, bunga bunga with his bestie Silvio Berlusconi and invade his neighbors, with autism.

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