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> accusation of the embezzlement of funds earmarked for subversive activities in Ukraine Everyone is embezzling all the time there. It's useful to keep an eye

by rdtsc 5y ago

> accusation of the embezzlement of funds earmarked for subversive activities in Ukraine Everyone is embezzling all the time there. It's useful to keep an eye one everyone and then selectively punish them if they do something you don't like it. > If claims of arrest are correct, this would indicate that Putin is seriously concerned about the FSB’s role in the military campaign Well Putin is FSB (ex-KGB) so he likely relied on his FSB buddies to set up a number of false flag operations in order to provide a cover for the invasion. Those are have been exposed and failed. Now Putin is looking more "naked" than he planned when invading and ruthlessly bombing civilians. Some trucks headed to Kiev had riot police gear in them. FSB likely thought people in Kiev would meet them with flowers, salt and bread, and it would be only some rowdy trouble-makers which the riot police would take care of. In other words it was supposed to be a 3 day blitzkrieg followed by police work later. They were wrong.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Well Putin is FSB (ex-KGB) To expand this a bit, Putin is both ex-KGB (left in 1991 to go into politics) and ex-FSB (he was the head of FSB before he was appointed Prime Minister.)
- rdtsc 5y ago
  Of course and he had also surrounded himself with ex-FSB/KGB associates as well: Patrushev, Bortnikov, Naryshkin. His body guards are all FSB too, I think. In his eyes, both FSB and the Army could do no wrong. And I think he may be realizing the "yes" men he surrounded himself from both of those agencies have been lying to him for years about the state of readiness, capabilities, and ability of those agencies. Now will some of them try to sprinkle some Polonium-210 in his tea? At first I thought it was plausible, but now I don't know. They've been there for so long kissing each others asses killing Putin would be the end of them as well. But, somehow, I see the GRU doing it. They've been more of a wildcard in the past. At some point their children won't be able to get the diabetes or other medicine and they might start thinking thoughts like that.
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by rdtsc 5y ago

dragonwriter 5y ago

> Well Putin is FSB (ex-KGB) To expand this a bit, Putin is both ex-KGB (left in 1991 to go into politics) and ex-FSB (he was the head of FSB before he was appointed Prime Minister.)

rdtsc 5y ago
Of course and he had also surrounded himself with ex-FSB/KGB associates as well: Patrushev, Bortnikov, Naryshkin. His body guards are all FSB too, I think. In his eyes, both FSB and the Army could do no wrong. And I think he may be realizing the "yes" men he surrounded himself from both of those agencies have been lying to him for years about the state of readiness, capabilities, and ability of those agencies. Now will some of them try to sprinkle some Polonium-210 in his tea? At first I thought it was plausible, but now I don't know. They've been there for so long kissing each others asses killing Putin would be the end of them as well. But, somehow, I see the GRU doing it. They've been more of a wildcard in the past. At some point their children won't be able to get the diabetes or other medicine and they might start thinking thoughts like that.
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