Sure, Putin was "elected", and his chief opponent Alexei Navalny died in a prison in the Arctic Circle.
Putin's last main opponent, Boris Nemtsov, was shot dead outside the Kremlin.
Posted on 06/24/2024 12:21:20 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, killed in terrorist attack in Dagestan. Foreign Ministry: No Israelis or Jews among the victims.
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I expect more instability in Russia as Putin’s invasion weakens central authority.
Have been noting that for some time. Unlikely that Ukraine will achieve a military victory. But internal privations and social unrest caused by decaying infrastructure are the by-product of the war, and will probably bring Putin down at some point, if not reversed.
And it’s true every year. The process is in motion. This year it’s closer than last year. Heating in multiple dwellings and water mains broke down during the winter, with nobody to fix it. Firemen are shorthanded for the fires in the multiple dwellings. Annual flooding remained untended during the spring, and one town that built their own makeshift dam to hold back the river was penalized for failing to get a work permit for said dam. Now forest fires abound. Smoke jumpers are either in Ukraine or fled to Uzbekistan and elsewhere to avoid going to Ukraine. Naturally, it’s Jihad time in Dagestan. When the cat’s tangled up in a ball of yarn, the feral rats will slay. And let’s not forget Prigorzin’s mutiny.
This is real life history, which unfolds at its own pace, not a sitcom where everything gets resolved in a half an hour.
IMO, these are the same sort of militants who tried to overthrow the Syrian government, and they are like beings from hell.
Sure, Putin was "elected", and his chief opponent Alexei Navalny died in a prison in the Arctic Circle.
Putin's last main opponent, Boris Nemtsov, was shot dead outside the Kremlin.
If Ukraine can capture Crimea, Russia will have a tenuous hold on the land in eastern Ukraine which it currently occupies. Crimea was a supply depot for Russia’s occupation forces.
“Do I need to remind you that Putin was just re-elected to a new six-year term?”
No need to remind me about irrelevant nonsense. It wasn’t a real election. His real opponent died in Siberia. His fake opponents dutifully lost. Putin will not survive another six years as President. Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters want their men back. They cry for them, but they are not. Sooner or later, he either has to send them to Siberia, which didn’t even work for Stalin (they screamed in unison, and the guards couldn’t take it; google it), or end this foolish campaign and render an accounting to said womenfolk.
“And what about your boy Zelensky? - who can’t sleep in the same bed two nights in a row.”
Sure. Because Russia has been looking to have him killed since February of 2022. He’s President of a corrupt kleptocracy that has only lately and haltingly begun to get its act together, so there are plenty of people only too happy to collect the price on his head.
But this is not about Zelensky, and he is not my “boy”. This is about Putin invading another former Republic that got uppity and looked westward. It matters very little who is at its helm for the moment, except that Zelensky didn’t take a helicopter to safety, as was expected of him. He stayed and continued to lead. For that crime, you will not stop using the Alinsky BS propaganda method to diminish him, and that itself diminishes you, not him.
So far as I can gather, Ukraine has made the continued use of Crimea as a naval base much more difficult. But I’m no military expert.
“Sure, Putin was “elected”, and his chief opponent Alexei Navalny died in a prison in the Arctic Circle.
Putin’s last main opponent, Boris Nemtsov, was shot dead outside the Kremlin.”
Reminds you a little of Biden eh? The dems would do the same to Trump if they could justify it….. like go to jail and have a disaffected person do the deed “for the good of the republic”.
Yup, dems are following in Putin's footsteps: trying to put opponents in jail, trying to control media, etc
Shootings target synagogues, churches in Dagestan, 7 police officers killed - reports
A shooting against two synagogues and two churches in Russia’s Dagestan left seven police officers dead, according to reports on Sunday.
The head of Sergokalinsky district in Dagestan, Magomed Omarov, was arrested in connection with his sons’ participation in the attack on Makhachkala and Derbent, law enforcement authorities reported. Searches were conducted at his home and he testified to the police. According to reports, his two sons were killed.
The synagogue in Derbent was completedly burned down and local guards were killed, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry. The synagogue in Makhachkala was attacked by gunfire, the ministry said, with no further details available.
In addition, an earlier attack by unknown individuals on a police post in Makhachkala, killing one officer and wounding six others. Six police officers were killed and 12 others wounded in total.
Local reports showed gunfights still ongoing in Makhachkala.
The attack on the churches left a priest, according to local officials.
At least two of the assailants were killed, with others arrested. The incidents are being investigated as a terrorist attack.
They don’t have to “justify” doing for Trump. Just find the right nut case, give him a gun, and then have an “accident” that shuts him up, too. Chuck Schumer might even eulogize Trump, as he pitches yet more gun control. That alone should motivate you to pray for Trump’s continued health.
As Sun Tzu wrote “if victory is
long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and
their ardor will be damped.
5. . Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war,
cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
6. There is no instance of a country having benefited
from prolonged warfare.”
Country, shmuntry. The main thing is the military industrial complex and big banks, and they benefit like crazy. Poor Putin, however, will have to give up Siberia to China, and leave office under a cloud, or through a window. Pity. He did achieve some good.
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