Posted on 10/15/2023 12:23:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Vladimir Putin just showed yet another sign of his increasing weakness. In Putin's Russia political weakness equals death. That's how Putin has built his system. Now Putin is quickly losing his strength. Is he a dead man walking, a future victim of his own system?
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Look at the reduction in graft from arms sales due to actually having to supply the Russian army with equipment instead of embezzling and the loss of hard currency sales due to Russian procurement and the fall in the reputation of Russian arms.
Putin seems to have a firm grip on the army and security services who are the only institutions with the power to remove him, with the exception of a small cell that might decide to assassinate him. But anyone removing Putin would have to have a plan for the succession and Putin has done a very good job of suppressing the rise of any possible successor.
LOL! Putin had the best week of his life watching the United States get mired into yet another Middle East conflict.
Didn’t he die of cancer?
Is that like a GI Joe with Kung Fu grip ?
“We are the USA, for God’s sake. We are the most powerful country in history, not in the world, but in the history of the world,” Biden answered a question from a CBS journalist.
That is about the time most people retire.
Again?
I think he’s died about 20+ times now.
The man has an 80 some percent popularity factor going for him by the Russian population. That would be quite a grip to loose. From one of the energy oligarchs that he booted? If so, the only grip that was lost was his in Russia.
Poll run and counted by his people, you really believe what you said.
Just using common sense one would know that is not possible, but believe what you want
Just reported numbers. Could care less either way.
“The man has an 80 some percent popularity factor going for him by the Russian population. “
Wow. Somebody out there thinks that popularity with the Russian people is not only measurable, but also relevant! Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?
Hopium, a strong drug.
Unfortunately, The collective West erroneously assumes if Vlad goes away, his successor will somehow surrender the ethnic provinces….
….not going to happen…the list of “ successors “ are hard core nationalists and would love to see Ukraine, NATO , and the collective West “ go away”, preferably vaporized.
Vlad has shown much restraint, carefull what tripe ( Hopium) the western narrative spews.
“”extended war has significantly reduced income from theft and graft.””
Here is an example of the level of Russian graft. In the last 15 years, Russia has centralized the space program. Roscosmos is their version of NASA. The previous leader of Roscosmos funneled so much money to himself, Russia had issues building and launching. I imagine that former leader is taking a long dirt nap.
Fortunately for the rest of the world, SpaceX has taken over launching people and supplies into space. During the President Trump administration, SpaceX was launching, testing and improving Starship almost once a month. The Hussein/Biden Regime has placed the massive government bureaucracy between SpaceX and launching. There would quite possibly be Starships orbiting the Earth by now.
He’ll be around for years...
How many times have we heard this said for 2 years now? It appears he is very much in command and in control.
Can you tell me whst the U.S. did?
So, you admit you are pro-Hamas?
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