@nprofile1q... The report of Putin's fear may be true without the existence of an actual credible threat. Putin seems to have episodes of paranoia: Remember the long table with Gerasimov and Shoigu at one end and Putin at the other? And it couldn't have been just covid: he later sat with a large group of stewardesses with no distancing. Also, there was the long absence of Gerasimov which seemed odd, although he might have been injured.