President Putin has the little man syndrome and a sexist view of the world, the defense secretary has said.
Ben Wallace described Putin as crazy and rejected suggestions that Russia was winning the war in Ukraine. He responded to a statement by Boris Johnson that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Putin were a woman, accusing him of “toxic masculinity.”
Wallace told LBC radio, “You rarely hear the phrase little woman’s syndrome, you always hear the little man’s syndrome. I think he’s definitely fine with that.”
Ben Wallace said Russia could only occupy territory by turning it into a wasteland
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However, he questioned the theory that women were likely to be militants, citing Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. “It’s like a comedy turn. He makes his statement every week, threatening with a nuclear bomb