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There is the slim possibility that if the war goes very badly a small group of very senior Russian generals arrange to capture Putin, depose him, put themselves
by walrus01 4y ago
There is the slim possibility that if the war goes very badly a small group of very senior Russian generals arrange to capture Putin, depose him, put themselves in place as some sort of junta, remove russian ground forces from Ukraine, and hand him over to the ICC to repair Russia's relationship with the rest of the world.
- vasac 4y agoYeah, except the West isn't equal to the world and chances of Russian generals handing Putin to ICC are the same as US generals delivering Bush or Obama to the ICC.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoThis is misunderstanding how Russia works - Russia is not a military dictatorship, it's a security services dictatorship. The Military in Russia is a low-status organisation and it is not capable of doing anyrhing in internal politics. They commonly end up on the recieving end of racketeering by low-level gangs. Yes, people that drive tanks and fire missiles pay 'taxes' to bandits armed with pistols. Putin was sending generals to their deaths without worry. Various internal police forces have a higher chance of removing FSB from power than the military does. If thongs get bad enough, thats not impossible.
- pyuser583 4y agoThank you for pointing this out! It makes sense, but I hadn’t made those connections.
- agapon 4y agoYou can say approximately the same about the Stalin's USSR when Beria was the most feared man. But just after Stalin's death Beria was promptly executed and the military played the major role in that.
- pyuser583 4y agoSounds like Serbia.