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Posted on 08/28/2025 5:10:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Throughout history, starting and then losing unprovoked wars has been a reliable way for dictators to forfeit their grip on power, either at the vengeful hands of the countries they targeted, via palace coups by disgruntled elites or occasionally even through uprisings by ordinary citizens weary of making sacrifices for a tyrant's deadly delusions. Within days of losing the Falklands Islands War to the United Kingdom in 1982, Argentina's General Leopoldo Galtieri, the leader of the embattled military junta that had launched the war to head off popular demands for new elections, resigned his office and started the process of restoring democracy. To say that things have not ended well for many individual dictators who tried to add territorial aggrandizement to domestic oppression, from Benito Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, is putting it lightly.
That stark history surely weighs heavily on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been Russia's increasingly brutal authoritarian leader throughout nearly the entirety of the 21st century and whose disastrous war of choice in Ukraine entered its fourth year in February, a conflict that has failed to "achieve almost any of his stated military objectives," said the Institute for the Study of War, "despite an estimated 900,000 Russians killed and wounded." While Putin's regime is currently in no danger of being overthrown by Ukrainian tanks surrounding the Kremlin, the longer the war drags on without a decisive military breakthrough, the more likely it is that Putin could be subject to removal from rivals inside Russia, or perhaps even tossed aside by the Russian people themselves.
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Putin himself "constantly considers potential successors and confirmed he has a list of candidates," said the Kyiv Independent, citing an interview the Russian strongman conducted with "pro-Russian state journalist Pavel Zarubin." Putin, unfortunately, did not reveal any names on his list.
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And their Muslims are breeding like rats.
About the Author(Found at the bottom of the article)
David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of “It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting
Majority in American Politics.”
You nailed it in your comment.
Oopsy daisy 😄
Zeepers are so desperate they are posting articles from Democrat Hacks
here on FR.
Did you have an estimate for how long 22% is accurate. A 300K bpd refinery is due online in about 10 days, after damage about 8 days ago.
The 22% I see talked about is cumulative since . . . the first time a drone hit a refinery with its 5 lbs of explosives and set a fire. Just how long do people think it takes to turn a valve off, replace a crude tank and relight the natural gas burners under the tank.
This is a task of a few weeks, and when it comes back online, that % calculation has to reverse.
Oh and btw, Russian refinery capacity is 5.6 mbpd.
Russian domestic consumption of oil is 3.6 mbpd. That’s rather a lot of cushion, yes?
aka "The Institute For Grifting On War"...
Exactly!
I always get a good laugh when zeepers talk about the Russian bots... blah,blah yap, yap, while they have their 19.000+ posts pure Ukie/Zelensky propaganda thread, old click bait pimp Babushka, and the half-witted, backward serial Ukie propaganda spammer who probably uses more bandwidth then 30-40 FReepers combined. 😅😅
Don’t leave your Thread so soon.
Some of us would like to know why you posted a Thread written by a verifiable
Democrat Hack. Don’t take my word for it. The Author David Faris has a very
short Bio at the bottom of the article YOU POSTED.
Included is a Book he has written called “It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How
Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics.”
Care to explain why you posted this on FR?
“old click bait pimp Babushka”
LOL.
Can you believe Faris the nutter WANTS Dramacrats to be in the majority, with all the tranny nutters and Democrat grifters that come along with that?
Yes, I think some here want Democrats Back in Power.
“Killed and wounded,” That is adding to the hurt it seems, according to David Faris’s headline. “O,r”needs to replace, “and!”
I don’t care. There isn’t any partisan politics in his article, and it was informative.
I see a lot of people here have caught the Russian Derangement Syndrome. Seek some help,it can be fatal.
“I see a lot of people here have caught the Russian Derangement Syndrome. Seek some help,it can be fatal.”
Did you miss my comment that said the military and government were what scares me?
BTW My great grandfather was in the Imperial Russian army.
Idiot
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