Posted on 03/16/2022 9:46:57 AM PDT by libh8er
Agreed. Putin should not expect to die of old age.
*** should not expect to die of old age. ***
... Better not say anything.
It’s not just despots that that get trapped in never being able to backtrack in their need for more control, it’s the same for the bureaucratic state in any country despite the type of executive power, elected or otherwise. Bureaucrats are just like any organism on earth. Self-preservation and self-interest are their most powerful motives and they will entrench themselves with every possible move
Agree.
“criticizing the boss is risky, but we’re not going to be shipped off to a gulag”
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Tell that to the people locked up indefinitely in solitary confinement for basically trespassing.
And Biden et al?
plomo inyectado
“crushing dissent and jailing opponents’
By that measurement the Dems can be considered despots by what they did to the Jan6 protesters.
Who among Putin’s inner circle would criticize him for interrupting NATO’s plan to foment a hostile State on their doorstep? If anything they most likely support his actions. This is just more leftist globalist nonsense from the Atlantic.
These neocon nitwits here love Biden. They are shilling for European wars. The ghost of Woodrow Wilson is very active on Free Republic.
On Monday, the Washington Post published an op-ed by columnist Brian Klaas whereby he expresses the near futility of attempting to “deprogram” millions of Trump supporters, claiming that many have “gone far enough down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking.”
The essay, titled “‘Why is it so hard to deprogram Trumpian conspiracy theorists?” depicts millions of Trump supporters as so devoted to “dangerous lunacy” that nearly all hope is lost of bringing them “back to reality.”
Referring to President Trump as “a conspiracy theorist in chief” who “injected the toxin of baseless conspiratorial thinking straight into America’s political bloodstream,” the essay claims that while only hundreds stormed the Capitol, “there are millions of Americans who share their views.”
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What's with the sudden outbreak of freepers posting garbage from Lefty dogsqueezins like "Brain" noKlaas and David Cornholio? 
Putin is said to blame the agency for intelligence which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid of their leaders.
The FSB security service allegedly handed him intelligence suggesting that Ukraine was weak, riddled with neo-Nazi groups, and would give up easily if attacked
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10603045/Putin-places-head-FSBs-foreign-intelligence-branch-house-arrest.html
see my post #13
The Atlantic... May as well be posting from UC Berckley student newspaper.
Is this discussing Putin or Biden and DC?
“Despots sow the seeds of their own demise early on, when they first face the trade-off between allowing freedom of expression and maintaining an iron grip on power. After arriving in the palace, crushing dissent and jailing opponents is often rational, from the perspective of a dictator: It creates a culture of fear that is useful for establishing and maintaining control. But that culture of fear comes with a cost.
For those of us living in liberal democracies, criticizing the boss is risky, but we’re not going to be shipped off to a gulag or watch our family get tortured. *(see also, January 6)
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He sent his girlfriend and her kid to Sweden what’s on his mind?.
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