Former KGB colleague: Putin isn’t going to start a nuclear war but may destroy Russia

Euromaidan Press ^ | 4/29/2015 | Paul A Gobel

[RedStateRocker]

Despite threatening language, Vladimir Putin is not going to start a nuclear war, according to Yuri Shvets, who studied along with him at the KGB’s Andropov Institute. Putin’s only desire is to remain in power for life, he says, and he knows Russia’s nuclear weapon delivery systems aren’t accurate enough for a first strike that would not result in national suicide.

“Do you seriously think, that a man who annually disappears from public view for seven to ten days in order to have a facelift and to fill himself up with Botox is capable of unleashing a nuclear war?”

[RedStateRocker]

Interesting, I think.

Submitted for general consideration.

[Calpublican]

Here’s my advice:

Do not agree to meet
this man for coffee.

[dp0622]

Good advice.

[SunkenCiv]

"Do you seriously think, that a man who annually disappears from public view for seven to ten days in order to have a facelift and to fill himself up with Botox is capable of unleashing a nuclear war?"

[Captainpaintball]

Horsecrap. Does this apply when he finishes upgrading his nukes? Because that is what he is doing, while Odonga is eliminating them altogether...

[Jonty30]

If Putin is cornered, I would not rule out a Samson maneuver.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[mad puppy]

I think the General is dangerously wrong.
The fact that Putin disappears like that for his face-work would suggest he is exactly the kind of narcissist that would fire a nuke. When Russia falls apart it is not like Putin will man up and own it...

[Veggie Todd]

So Russia has their very own Obama.

[JimSEA]

It strikes me that a self obsessed leader like Putin might take the world with him if he found he had a terminal illness. The other side of the coin, however, is that he identifies so much with Russia that he wouldn’t want to be the cause of its destruction.

[tcrlaf]

Euromaidan PR is the Soros-financed Propaganda arm of the Ukrainian NAZI’s.

Probably not the wisest thing to be posting on FR?

[MaxMax]

I think the Russian Generals would kill him first.

[vladimir998]

“Probably not the wisest thing to be posting on FR?”

Strange, that’s what I thought about you.

[elcid1970]

In Russia, Botox gets you.

[JimSEA]

Hopefully

[trebb]

"Do you seriously think, that a man who annually disappears from public view for seven to ten days in order to have a facelift and to fill himself up with Botox is capable of unleashing a nuclear war?"

Seems like he might become more likely to throw a "hissy" and do something stupid.

[RedStateRocker]

By no means do I agree with anything in the article; I do think it an interesting perspective, that is all.

As to your opinion of what is or isn’t “wise” to post on FR, the only person whose opinion matters to me is Jim Robinson’s; and he’s smart enough to know that the more you know about your enemy (and Putin is as much ours as Stalin ever was) the better.

Now, please, can you provide any proof of Euromaidan is tied to “Ukranian NAZI’s”? I know Putinistas do not support Ukraine but beyond that I am quite willing to be educated.

Regards

[Grzegorz 246]

“Now, please, can you provide any proof of Euromaidan is tied to “Ukranian NAZI’s”?”

Anything RuSSia doesn't approve is NAZI - at least according to the Kremlin propaganda, their operatives and useful idiots.