Putin threatened with coup

Herald Sun ^ | 25 January 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

Sounds interesting...

[mlc9852]

Sounds scary.

[nuconvert]

pong

[cripplecreek]

Putin isn't my favorite person but a coup isn't the way to go. Coups tend to breed later coups.

[Cicero]

It seems a bit odd to announce a forthcoming coup in the newspapers. I don't think overthrowing Putin would be an easy job.

[DoNotDivide]

Putin brought this on himself.

[Dog]

Putin has this blowback coming.

[miliantnutcase]

Russia isn't stable to begin with. Pretty scary when *anything* in that country can be bought for the right price.

[SierraWasp]

Aw geeze... couldn't we just have a little "putsch," instead?

[jeremiah]

I would think that Putin would be within his rights to seize any and all assets of this guy and his associates, and terminate him/them with prejudice. If I were in his shoes, it would already been ordered.

[meanie monster]

LMAO

[Dog Gone]

I don't know who this guy is, but I wouldn't like to take my chances with a coup coming out okay.

Putin is far too authoritarian, however his country never made the transistion to transparent democracy. To the extent that authoritarian rule is necessary to disband the oligarchy that infests Russian politics and business, I'm okay with that.

The question is whether that oligarchy is actually an ally of Putin. I don't know the answer to that, and that in itself is worrisome.

[A. Pole]

Putin has this blowback coming.

What blowback? Putin has support of majority of Russians. Support for Berezovsky is maybe 1% or 2%. The chance of Berezovsky staging a coup against Putin is similar to chance of Meyer Lansky staging a coup against FDR.

[rodguy911]

Ordinarily it would be odd to announce a coup in the paper but if you are afraid of being assassinated anyway who cares.
This guy could be the real thing.
But the truth is Russians must be stuck on stupid to elect a kgb guy "President" and then complain later that he has become a "dictator", surprise surprise.

[happyathome]

Yeah its an interesting geopolitical question, isn't it? Do we hope that a coup doesn't happen, because instability in Russia is worse than the current trend towards despotism? Or do we hope for a coup on the theory that a destabilized Russia would be less troubelsome on the world stage.

Course the downside is (1) all those loose nukes and (2) we really don't wish the evils of disorder on the poor Russian people.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Mafia PING

[laconic]

I would trust Meyer Lansky or Michael Corleone more than I'd ever trust Berezovsky, a former school teacher who "somehow" obtained a car monopoly and "somehow" made himself into a billionaire. He has NO support in Russia.

[GSlob]

Sounds boring. Whoever comes to power there will continue on the same old treadmill ad nauseam. Samuel Huntington called these extremely resilient things civilizational identities [or cultural mentalities]. Hence one would do well to remember that "there is always a derriere in the chair". And whose derriere it is, is important only to the particular lickers of these particular derrieres and to the derrieres' proud owners.

[SevenMinusOne]

What blowback? Putin has support of majority of Russians. Support for Berezovsky is maybe 1% or 2%. The chance of Berezovsky staging a coup against Putin is similar to chance of Meyer Lansky staging a coup against FDR.

Agreed.