He's series, honest he is.
Posted on 10/29/2022 3:38:41 PM PDT by dennisw
You know, in Khrushchev’s day a guy like Putin would be missing already.
Dead Man Walking.
It really does seem to get more ridiculous with each passing day, doesn’t it?
And to think there are idiots who actually believe this stuff. 😂🤣
Problem is, they haven’t lost 200,000 lives. Where are you getting those stupid numbers from? They didn’t even bring that many troops into Ukraine.
Putin will be around longer than Biden
I said the equivalent.
Russia is a third of the population of the US, approximately.
Russia, to my knowledge has lost something like 60,000 men in this thing. So, the US equivalent would be about 200,000./
I don't watch cable news, or news programming on any format. Has the main stream media been doing live coverage of the many alleged antiwar/anti-Putin protests going on throughout Russia? Do they have any journalists assigned there who are airing regular daily broadcasts showing these protests? I did a search and found nothing.
Wishful thinking, I’m afraid. Kim Il-sung, Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez Assad, Idi Amin, Sukarno and Saddam Hussein are examples of leaders who launched abortive invasions and had to retreat, but retained power.
That’s because any protests that aren’t licensed are immediately squashed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly_in_Russia
Arkancide?
Kind of like here I guess. Only leftwing protest isn’t quashed.
There will always be anti war protests. That does not mean that everyone is protesting or that it is large enough to matter.
Ukraine propaganda.
Nothing more.
Putin won’t lose bcause he’s already doing what he went there to do. When he’s finished he’ll leave.
Invading Crimea and arming proxy insurgents in 2014 was peaceful?
He's series, honest he is.
Putin will also be around longer than Zelensky. .....He’s going to have to surrender or Us/Europe will boot him out when they’re ready to end snding money and cease fighting.
Or shooting dead your likely electoral opponent in the literal shadow of the Kremlin. Putin would not be killing and jailing his prominent political opponents if he felt his position was secure.
It doesnt matter. “Hardliner” or not, for internal political purposes they wont inherit the blame for Putins vast screwup. Indeed, they will be able to hang the whole mess on Putin and start off with a clean slate.
The whole Ukraine adventure has nothing to do with critical Russian interests. It was an opportunistic move by Putin that proved to be a monumental miscalculation, and quickly turned into a quagmire. Putin can’t get out of it without fatally weakening himself, because he would take the blame. It would take another man to extract Russia from this mess. If the new man has to blow out clouds of bellicose rhetoric while withrawing it doesnt really matter.
Btw, there is no such thing as a “hard liner” or suchlike. People at that level are all high functioning amoral narcissistic sociopaths. They have no sincerely held principles. Its all about gaining and keeping power. Everything else is about branding.
Propagandist.
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