The Red 10

My presupposition is that Poetin and his comrades - for lack of a good word for this group, hereby baptized, 'The Red 10' - are primary and personal responsible for the war between Russia and Ukraine.

What's puzzling me is how their motivation to wage war fits into Maslow's Motivation Model. What's in it for them? Why? They have enough money. They have enough power. You would then assume that the deficiency needs are satisfied. Or do they still feel anxious and tense about their acquired (some will say: stolen) rights?  

Is it because money and power corrupts people? How to define being corrupt in this context? Is it because they want to be in the history books - make Russia Great again - as Peter the Great #2022? Isn't this Self Actualisation?

Some say, "Make love not war!" I guess for 'The Red 10' love is not the core of life. For them love, flowers, books and other art-stuff in general are items one buys at a shop. Deficiency needs.

For me personal the dimension - or level - of 'having (almost) absolute power at your disposal' is not accounted for in Maslow's pyramid. We can put '(corrupted) power' away as immaturity and some kind of psychological disorder, but if you do you do an injustice to the human species.

(Aside, what also is not accounted for is the dimension of culture. Read for culture also: storytelling and narratives.) 

P.S. Mark, Maslow himself never created the image of a pyramid to represent the hierarchy of needs. Some use another image (source): the image of (interfering) waves

 

Wondering why not use one of these images of representing Maslow's hierarchy of needs': DNA string, 11 dimensional cube, rooms in a house with windows, a cold and warm buffet diner,  and ... - there must be more.