[lucky american]

May be propaganda but a dying crazy dictator, if cancer rumors are true, could care less about the world he leaves behind.

[Zhang Fei]

[May be propaganda but a dying crazy dictator, if cancer rumors are true, could care less about the world he leaves behind.]

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He cares. He’s got kids and grandkids. Even they survived, they’d be subjected to revenge attacks. Rape and torture are on the menu. Prior to death. Think about how the boyars got rid of Feodor II and his kin.

Besides, Putin’s boyars aren’t his obedient robots. They don’t want to join him in Valhalla. If they need to, they’ll snuff him out, just as Beria killed Stalin. Brezhnev was Khrushchev’s handpicked protege. He colluded with Khrushchev’s other rivals to oust Khrushchev because the guy was getting into too many situations like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Russians like the idea of expanding their empire. Killing Russia in its entirety by starting a nuclear war, however, would be a 100% reduction in the empire.

What Russians understand about war is that sometimes you cut your losses, and build up until a better opportunity arises. That’s what Tsar Nicholas II did when he lost a naval battle with Japan. At 70% of NATO combined, Russia has plenty of land. And it will have other chances at Ukraine and the rest of Europe - alliances, like borders, don’t last forever.

[ought-six]

“May be propaganda but a dying crazy dictator, if cancer rumors are true, could care less about the world he leaves behind.”

But most Russians do.