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Happens the longer you're in power, and this is something i write about a lot, is that it actually goes your head. it changes your psychology, it changes even your brain chemistry, and creates something called illusory control, where you begin to believe that you can control outcomes that you can actually change. as a result of this combination, putin has fallen into this dictator trap of believing his own lies. believing his own fake reality israel. therefore, miscalculating badly, and the ukrainians, unfortunately, are very much paying the price at the moment. >> and bryan, congresswoman jac...

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Long as he's in charge cuba or north korea? >> well, i think the first thing is we need to dispel the myth of what donald trump called the savvy genius strongman. this is not a savvy genius. he's not behaving like a savvy genius. he is irrational and he is behaving irrationally because he has fallen into what i call the dictator trap, which is because to stay in power dictators do things that ultimately cause their downfall because they construct fake realities and they make mistakes based on the fake realities. you think of what vladimir putin gets in terms of information, he has been in powe...

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Madeline you' madeline albright is delusional. do you believe that? >> i believe he is in a classic dictator trap. he is getting very little information. he has been watching and believing his own tv for 15 years. >> i don't know if i would call it a delusion but he certainly has a very different view of the world than you and i do. >> he does have these lengthy phone conversations, 90 minutes over the weekend. angela merkel heard about that call and said, maybe he is living in another world. others that know him well say he is by no means delusional. he is very intelligent. he has his mission...