Vladimir Putin will nominate his chosen successor this year rather than risk being toppled as the Russian President's popularity continues to plummet amid a series of military defeats in Ukraine, his former ally has claimed
Posted on 01/13/2023 6:45:29 AM PST by dennisw
Vladimir Putin will seek to nominate his chosen successor this year amid heavy losses on the battlefield, Abbas Gallyamov, his former speechwriter, said
Putin's circle no longer see him as a 'guarantor of stability' and are alarmed by the rise of Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the well-armed Wagner private army, which is so far loyal to the Kremlin but could turn on an elite seen as failing in the war, Gallyamov said.
They fear being slaughtered with Prigozhin's sledgehammer - the extrajudicial punishment given to his jail convict soldiers who refuse to fight or seek to defect to Ukraine.
One of Prigozhin's former Wagner mercenaries, who changed sides in the Ukraine war, Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, had his head taped to a brick wall and was beaten to death with a sledgehammer in November when he was captured by his former colleagues.
Prigozhin praised the defector's execution and said that a 'dog receives a dog's death' in response to the video of Nuzhin being bludgeoned to death.
Since Putin's war began, Putin's allies like Prigozhin and Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov have begun jockeying for power and prominence, suggesting that they could one day want to supplant him.
It comes as Putin was accused of 'driving his own people to slaughter by the thousands' in his drive to secure the key settlement of Soledar in eastern Ukraine.
Putin has seen his popularity plummet after his army has seen a series of devastating losses on the battlefield.
Gallyamov said: 'The apparatus looks at Prigozhin and stops seeing Putin as guarantor of their stability.
Vladimir Putin will nominate his chosen successor this year rather than risk being toppled as the Russian President's popularity continues to plummet amid a series of military defeats in Ukraine, his former ally has claimed.
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Putin will seek to hand over power to a chosen heir and retire to his £1billion Black Sea ‘palace’ rather than risk the ignominious fate of toppled tyrants like Muammar Gaddafi, said Abbas Gallyamov, Putin’s former speechwriter.
Vladimir Putin will nominate his chosen successor this year rather than risk being toppled as the Russian President's popularity continues to plummet amid a series of military defeats in Ukraine, his former ally has claimed
They say this every year.
Putin should just kill Zelensky, reclaim Uklraine, then retire.
What happened to Stage 8 cancer????
Right. And I’m sending a space probe to Mars later this year.
But, they are fielding 500,000 more troops. Next week. Victory is imminent. //sarc
Putin’s gonna take the money and run. Down to his retirement compound in Sochi, to live out the rest of his cancerous years. Putin is sick and tired of the unworthy Russian people. Same as Hitler was disgusted with the unworthy of him, German people at the end of his life.
Which type of cancer, I hear he’s been diagnosed with multiple types of cancer, any of which is fatal.
I read this immediately after I read an article saying how the deep state will use the “classified documents” issue to remove Joe Biden
It would fit well with Russia.
Is there a difference? I’m starting to think - NO.
Do you get to retire, on your own terms, from such a job? Even if he goes to his mansion on the Black Sea, does his successor want him alive there?
Why is it a military or political disaster when the Russkies lose wars, but not a military or political disaster when we lose wars?
Tails from the front need to have some confirmation in fact. So far, this whole fiasco has suffered fact free reporting.
It would fit well with Russia.
Is there a difference? I’m starting to think - NO.
Deep State just removed a US president by (at the very least) suppressing true info about Biden and manufacturing lies about Trump.
Yeah, it's down to 79% from 80%.
Uke Nazis and Biden shills on the other hand ...
Their plan is Putin will die laughing at their popularity.
Hey Dennis, stuck in the Daily Male again?
OK, ask yourself this -
IF Russia was actually winning, wouldn’t the numerous Putin cheerleaders be on FR bragging about it?
of course ... so are they doing that?
NO, they’re not ... which logically means Russia ISN’T winning on the battlefield
in another month, this war enters Year Two
“Putin ‘will nominate his chosen heir this year...”
Is that before or after he dies for the 7th time?
I agree with your sentiment. Our beloved US govt is quite similar to the governments in China and Russia. It’s all about who controls the cheese.
My “moment” came while I was on a trip to China in 2017. I observed ordinary Chinese people wanting to live their lives and young people wearing expensive tennis shoes and playing video games on airplanes.
Until there are term limits in government and laws passed to outlaw lobbying after government or military service, graft and corruption will only continue. Sadly, this will never occur. The beast has grown beyond any level of management short a reset of radical changes to the life that we know.
Funny, I used to naively believe corruption only existed in 3rd world $hitholes like Mexico (ala La Mordida). Nope, it is a constant in everything from child sports (parents/coaches) and acceptance into premier universities to the upper reaches of govt.
MFO
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