Posted on 12/05/2022 12:22:35 PM PST by Cronos
The Kremlin will begin to disintegrate should Ukraine recapture Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014, a Crimean official said.
Refat Chubarov, a Crimean Tatar leader, made the remarks in an interview with Ukraine's Radio NV in a video published on Thursday. It comes amid reports that Russians are fleeing Crimea to the neighboring Russian region of Krasnodar because they fear Ukraine will eventually liberate the Black Sea peninsula.
He said Putin's government will begin to collapse as Ukraine's Armed Forces get closer to recapturing Crimea, adding that the peninsula is of exceptional importance to the Russian leader.
"This Ukrainian territory is extremely important for Putin. This is the question of his life, and not only political," Chubarov said. "Therefore, it is clear that Russia, especially at the stage of inevitable defeat, will stimulate all its agents and all its forces in order to keep Crimea for itself."
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Only the 43rd article since March talking about or alleging the downfall of Putin/Kremlin.
*yawn*
He is correct.
That’s why Russia will fight existential war to keep it.
Nah. Another corrupt oligarch will step into the breach. The former USSR is a collection of criminal gangs masquerading as legitimate States.
3rd world cesspool like Somalia or Yemen.
If alien cancer doesn’t get him for the 5th time...
Power vacuums always get filled. Specially in Russia.
Personally, I think a ‘disintegration’ of Putin’s power to be unlikely, but even if it did, don’t expect sunshine, rainbows and frolicking unicorns to come out of it.
And yet, unlike Russia, Ukraine is day by day progressing to this goal.
Neocons and DC war-mongers should pray for the health and longevity of Putin
If in some improbable scenario he goes, it won’t be WEF/Soros stooges who will takeover
It will be hardline military/nationalists. And from there, DC and London will be targets.
The man has a 78% approval rating.
He ain’t going nowhere.
That is, if he doesn’t die from the 32 flavors of Baskin Robbins cancers, diseases, etc. that the Western/UK/US/EU/NATO propaganda ridden been steadily pumping out since March....
Its this sort of complete idiocy which led us into this war. I sense you are a department head or assistant secretary at State or DoD.
Day by day...?
No, day by day, they dying in the Bakhmut area which the Russians have literally turned into a killing field meat grinder with no hurry to take Bahkmut, at all.
Why?
Cause the demilitarization of Ukraine is taking place currently in Bakhmut and in full slaughter mode.
It may be an existential war for Putin, though, seeing as he was the guy who started it.
It’s the naval base at Sevastopol that makes Crimea important.
The breakdown in negotiations of the Russian’s use of the base is what led to the 2014 invasion.
The construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge verifies the importance.
Not much is being said about the Ukrainian forces on the Kilburn Split which controls access to the estuary of the Bug and Dnieper Rivers.
There’s a dearth of news about the military action except the Ukrainian MOD has confirmed they have forces on the splt.
Haven't all or most of these things--other than their obsession with expanding their borders--been debunked? Russian children are conscripted into the Russian army where they are systematically tortured and raped in a system called "The Reign of the Grandfathers."
Russian "Christians", by which is meant members of the historically KGB controlled Russian Orthodox Church, don't bother to attend church at all, with only 7% of their population even going once a month. Meanwhile, Protestants are labeled "heretics" and "cults" alongside the Mormons and the LDS, subjected to forfeiture of their buildings, harassments, churches bulldozed, and evangelism highly restricted.
To the Russkies, only the Orthodox religion is the true Christian church, the one denomination most of the population doesn't even care for.
And as for "care for their peoples"? 25% of the population has never even seen a toilet. Sewage systems and running water are absent for millions of Russkies--and why? Because of the same rampant corruption that has enabled Vladimir Putin to become one of the world's richest men, with gigantic mansions and vacation homes, despite never working a real job in his life other than as a KGB thug.
And at this point Jan, even a Putinist like you must admit that Russian media has systematically lied to you about every phase of this war, beginning with the lie "we will never invade Ukraine." Or I guess, even further than that, in 2014 when they invaded Ukraine and then said "we never invaded Ukraine, all those modern Russian tanks and military are just random separatists spawning in the Donbass and raiding Ukrainian bunkers."
Anyone who f***s up as badly as Putin did in Ukraine is skating on thin ice with one foot in the grave, to mix a metaphor.
I remember you guys spamming about the massive victories around Bakhmut and Ukraine's imminent defeat there back in August.
And at least back then it was somewhat tactically important because of the whole "cauldron of 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers who will be pinched in and slaughtered any day now!"
In the Crimean War of 1853-56, I wonder what Russia was fighting for? We know the Britain and France were fighting to preserve Islam…Like always.
Enjoy the wet dream.
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