Seven weeks into the Ukrainian invasion our collective media is still wasting time kvetching about Putin’s personal wealth, yachts-yachts-yachts, and the oligarchs surrounding him: like any of these will move the needle on his decision making. Such speculation is pointless. We know how in autocracies the lackeys misinform the dictators. Even our own mini-autocrat, our last president, got crazier and stupider as time went by, ever more surrounded by yes men and Kraken women. Autocrats and narcissists actively prune their circle of any dissenting voices: Trump didn’t even have the power to kill …