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Don't hold your breath for that, steps have been taken that should prevent it in future. puttin' ain't the smartest currently, but he still has some chops form
by jajko 2y ago
Don't hold your breath for that, steps have been taken that should prevent it in future. puttin' ain't the smartest currently, but he still has some chops form his KGB career and is paranoid beyond wildest imagination.
Anybody who posed any sort of real threat has been murdered either by throwing out of some high windows or just whole family with kids slaughtered for show.
People in the west don't grok how downtrodden russian population is, for centuries, cca continuously. Thats why democracy didn't work there, people let wolves do whatever they wanted since nobody understood that you actually have to stand up to them, so we are where we are. Military comes from the same population, just worse characters.
There ain't no easy solution that we would like. They are not rational now and I don't think they will be till puttin' dies, and who knows what other clown will take the helm. They don't keep sharpest most rational folks at top levels, and next guy won't be somebody from lower ranks.
- bell-cot 2y ago> Don't hold your breath ... No, I don't particularly expect it to happen. But Russia has a long history of revolutions when things (especially wars) were not going well for the current Czar / General Secretary / whatever. > There ain't no easy solution that we would like. True, for the big picture. But my comment was in response to user Animats saying "The West can push back." (About the article, on Russian fake news operations targeting the West.) If pushing back is the game plan, then "what does Putin most fear?" is an excellent basis for the pushback strategy. Ideally, he'd pull the plug on his fake news, because the pushback was too scary.