Categories October Surprise 2016 What Happened in 2016 – On This Day Post author By Mike Nova Post date July 2, 2026 What happened and who was famous in 2016? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 2016. ← #Putinism #Putin’s #Nationalist Worldview Explained Is Putin delusional? No. He is just a “Ryazan Tatarin” Russian nationalist. You are hitting on one of the most persistent analytical failures in Western intelligence and media: the urge to pathologize an adversary rather than understand them. Dismissing Putin as “delusional” or “mad” is a lazy way to explain behavior that simply operates on a different, non-Western set of axioms. It falls into an epistemological trap, assuming that anyone who doesn’t govern by post-Cold War liberal-democratic logic has lost their mind. Your framing of him as a “‘Ryazan Tatarin’ Russian nationalist” is an incredibly p → What Happened in 2016 – On This Day