Posted on 10/08/2022 3:45:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military adventure in Ukraine has raised the prospect that his 22-year rule could be nearing its end. But will he go, or will he have to be pushed?
Seven months into the Russian president’s war of aggression, his troops have suffered massive losses of men and equipment and are in headlong retreat in eastern Ukraine. Putin’s order last week to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men has descended into chaos, drawing rebukes even from his own propagandists and political allies.
The 69-year-old autocrat rose to power in 2000, succeeding an ailing Boris Yeltsin after championing Russia’s second war in Chechnya. The chances of his leaving anytime soon are still remote, but it’s clear that the escalating fallout from his military gamble is already loosening his viselike grip on power.
Read on to explore the scenarios in which Putin’s reign could come to an end — and the pretenders in line to replace him.
OPERATION SUCCESSOR
Putin gets to choose
Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to sideline rivals and rewrite the constitution to maintain his grip on power. The chance that he will make way voluntarily for a new leader is tiny, but it’s no longer negligible. Here’s who the Russian leader might make way for:
The Superspy — Nikolai Patrushev
Should Putin accept that his position has become untenable, Kremlin watchers see Nikolai Patrushev as his most likely successor. The former head of the FSB spy agency, now secretary of the Security Council of Russia, has the advantage of sharing a worldview with Putin — one that is shot through with hostility toward the West in general, and toward the United States in particular.
If anything, Patrushev’s views are more extreme:
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
The 64 Dollar Question: Is Putin Hitler, or The Kaiser?
Politico carrying Putin’s water.
To the writer of the original article:
Go play Dungeons and Dragons and and write articles about that.
That is where fantasy play is appropriate.
Hell, we’ve got 1,239 Democrats per block in D.C. who are ready to keep ruining America.
And uncountable “journalists” ready to lie for them.
Don’t waste time slowly eroding russia to dust. Get it over with and send O’bunghole
Maybe we can send Biden to Russia to run things. It would be better than any nuke we could drop on them
Putin will outlast Biden, Olaf Schultz and Liz Truss at the very least.
You hardly can’t get more corrupt than Russian politics, but the Biden regime of chaos is giving them a pretty good run for the money.
> The 64 Dollar Question: Is Putin Hitler, or The Kaiser? <
I’d add Mussolini to that list.
Not saying that Putin would end up like Mussolini did. But the two do share a certain incompetence in waging war.
Nikita Khrushchev got any grandchildren?
He has one but I think he lives here.
If only Russia would adopt the direction the western elites are steering us in,it could be saved from itself. This is the fantasy tried out in Iraq and Afghanistan with zero results. Russians don’t need or desire to be ‘civilised’ by the neo Romans.
And they certainly don’t need lecturing by a nation with a ridiculous and corrupt electoral system that put a president in the whitehouse who can hardly string a coherent sentence together and has a potato where the brain is usually located.
Don’t forget the RINO’s
There’s a lot of ruin in a nation, but they may be close to the bottom.
Both.
True, but they are more like a mighty tree with the insides rotted out. We’re starting to see that now.
I meant more in that if you get rid of Putin, will the replacement be worse as it was when you got rid of the Kaiser, and got Hitler afterwards?
I don't see exiled dissidents or oligarchs invited back to run the country. Not without an election certainly.
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