Putin, like Hitler, takes day to day command of his invasion | Eastern NC Now

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is taking full day to day operational control of his invasion of Ukraine.  This comes a day after the senior general Putin had sent to take command of the Russian campaign in the Donbas was wounded by shrapnel in a Ukrainian attack on his command post and was evacuated to Russia.  Putin's background was in the KGB and he has no military training.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10775259/Putin-compared-Stalin-paranoia-says-former-KGB-agent.html

This is similar to Hitler imposing his battle plans on the German General Staff in World War II, leading to monumental blunders that cost Germany the war.  Hitler had been a corporal in World War I and so had slightly more military experience than his fellow fascist Putin.

Putin seems intent on copying one of Hitler's major blunders.  While the General Staff wanted to isolate Stalingrad and keep pushing the retreating Soviets, and seize the oil fields beyond Stalingrad, Hitler insisted on stopping and taking the city because it was named for his rival Stalin.  That allowed the Soviets to regroup, counterattack, and change the course of the war.  Now Putin is putting personality in play again by insisting his army concentrate of taking the city of Zelensky's birth, a city of a million people.  Putin seems intent on setting up his own Stalingrad debacle.

Hitler and Putin apparently share one other thing in common - Parkinson's disease and the paranoia that goes with it.