Where are you finding the benevolence in politicians making decisions about war? Every US president post-WWII is technically a war criminal by their own standards, those instituted at Nuremburg.
As for pop psychology. I'm calling people sociopaths because they profit from things like Yemen, Vietnam, Iraq, Iraq-Iran, Ukraine (half of congress speculated on the war, insider info!), Libya, and basically every notable mass murdering event in recent history. Millions dead and no calls for inquiries into war crimes and "ill gotten gains".
You, meanwhile, are using psychics as evidence of Putin's mindstate. I'd say you're the only one projecting here.