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Title: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Raven on August 28, 2022, 08:35:16 PM
Came across this. Don't know how true it is. I said the other day that I wished someone would put him down, looks like it may just happen.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19613857/putins-chiefs-assassinations-net-closes-in-on-russia/
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Alex on August 28, 2022, 08:52:00 PM
Better the devil you know as the old saying goes.  We could end up with worse than Putin, perhaps someone who wouldn't hesitate to go nuclear ?
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Raven on August 28, 2022, 09:25:54 PM
True, but I'm not so sure he wouldn't press the button if he felt like it.
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: klondike on August 28, 2022, 11:02:08 PM
Given the performance of his other military gear I'd question if the wire still ran from his red button or if somebody had weighed in the cable (and probably the nukes too) at the scrap dealers.
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Scrumpy on August 29, 2022, 08:47:15 AM

It takes more than one man to press the button.. It has to be agreed by others..
 Puntin's reign would die along with millions of others.. He, and many worldwide leaders who rule, are far too vain/greedy to allow this..
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Alex on August 29, 2022, 12:38:08 PM
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-successor-could-even-worse-west-giles-1723176
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Scrumpy on August 29, 2022, 01:04:03 PM

A successor to Putin could be worse.. Equally the West and NATO could dish out big problems to Russia..   Perhaps the Russian people will have had enough by then and rise up against their leaders.. Anything is possible.
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: klondike on August 29, 2022, 01:29:42 PM
I think Putin's demise will come from higher up the food chain than "the people" who, just like us, have no easy way to get rid of  leaders that just constantly lie and treat them like meal tickets and mushrooms.
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: Scrumpy on August 29, 2022, 06:58:43 PM
People have been known to overthrow their leaders.. Be they royal or otherwise.. It has happened in Russia before..
Title: Re: Is Putin's Time Running Out.
Post by: klondike on August 29, 2022, 07:25:26 PM
It's possible that there could be a military coup. No civil uprising is likely to work in a totalitarian regime.

i came across this pictorial explanation of Russian society

(https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-93a9dc8109ad1a5e58d46d3e72622da0-lq)