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I hate the idea, because short term everybody loses, lose loved ones, lose their own lives, but one does wonder if a civil war would finally be able to break Russia into smaller normal independent democratic states that can take care of themselves
It's crazy how much it start to seem like Russia and the US are like 2 sides to the same coin. It's almost like a small minority of persons with highly lethal weapons give them some sort of complex that leads them to believe they can make decision for everybody else at the cost of other people's livelihood.
Anyone hoping this means they stop funding scammers to trick Americans into voting against their best interests, too bad, that's one of their best revenue streams.
Yeeaaaahhh, no, that won't stop unless indeed a civil war breaks out in Russia.
That would be pretty neat, which means it won't happen.
Why are you, Mr Kharichev, so interested in windows?
Good. Die faster, Russia.
Yes please. Something good for once. That country is the source of so much suffering in the world.
if russia is going to civil war, thier troll farms will be silent on social media for a while, thats a good thing.
Sometimes I reminisce how real the internet was before the propaganda machines took over :(
i remember reddit was pretty quiet and qaint like lemmy before 2016. then there was massive campaign underway to put propaganda on reddit, and then the first bans i recieved was during '18 in politics section, it just snowballed from there.
oh and you notice when reddit does thier usual annual purges the site becomes super quiet, or when PUTIN needed to turn his troll farms internally it had the same effect.
Yeah the pattern basically repeats on every information technology:
Except these days it's so accelerated that we barely get to enjoy step 2 :(
I think Mr. Kharichev is about to get window'd.
Every once in a while a story like this gets published and it occupies the news cycle for a little bit. They always end up being nothing.
A few years ago Putin was reportedly on his death bed. Prior to that he had aggressive Parkinson's and would resign in 6 months.
I suspect this is just a smoke screen for something else.
Defenestrated
Onto a trampoline where he bounced back in, and was refenestrated.
And then they injected polonium in his veins, the end
According to Vlad Vexler, in Russian political/bureaucratic culture this is not to be understood as real analysis and more to be understood as functionaries pitching themselves as useful to Putin: https://youtu.be/ZJryUKULZ_E
So it’s a race, is it? USA! USA! USA!
Wouldn't it be great if all the empires collapsed and everybody just like, learned their lesson?
literally everyone when an empire collapses:
omg what a happy world if both the US and Russia balkanized.
Finally some clever words about reality. But I doubt that he will listen anyway.
He'll be seen in a gulag and then never seen again
Incoming headline:
senior Kremlin official dies of suicide after shooting himself in the back of the head 3 times after falling out of 10th floor window.
It's especially impressive that he mananged to do that with his hands tied behind his back. Some people are just determined I guess.
What's incredible is this wouldn't be the first time Russia has spent such an insane amount of money on a futile war they absolutely collapse.
Collapsing is a proud Russian tradition. And now the US gets to do it with them!
Putin and Trump, and their respective countries, have lots in common. It's almost like they're marching in lock-step.
Yes. But trump isn't sending thousands of soldiers every week to die in the meat grinder... yet.
He's working hard on catching up, no worries.
And he doesn't even have to invade. He will kill his own people using his minions.
Sources: Reuters, BBC, AP, Express
This article is made and published by Jens Asbjørn Bogen, who may have used AI in the preparation
haha okayyyyy
I've been hearing this for 2 years. How's Putin's cancer doing, by the way?
it was, and remains, a real consequential threat of Putin's course of action. but these things are rarely quick, until they begin.
Hooray!
FAFO
That guy better stay on the ground floor for the rest of his life. Anything higher up than oh say about 30 feet gets so darn slippery this time of year in Moscow that you just wouldn't believe it.