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Kremlin critic removed from plane at St. Petersburg. (Original Post) Grasswire2 May 2021 OP
Am I wrong in hoping.... Thunderbeast May 2021 #1
+100 I'm with ya on this one. abqtommy May 2021 #2
So the Belarus was Putin's test bubble? Since Lukashenko is an arm of Putin. PA_jen May 2021 #3
These so-called strongmen are acting in sync peggysue2 May 2021 #4
+1 moondust May 2021 #5

Thunderbeast

(3,419 posts)
1. Am I wrong in hoping....
Mon May 31, 2021, 05:13 PM
May 2021

....that somewhere in bowels of an unmarked building, an army of geeks is figuring out a way to drain the accounts of Putin and his kleptocracy while disarming their nukes?

Sadly, there is no language this synchopath understands other than leverage and power. Russia is a gas station run by the mafia with nuclear weapons. Their GDP is on the order of Italy (not known as an economic star).

Not a fan of the Cold War, but we must figure out a way to check his shameless dictatorship.

peggysue2

(10,839 posts)
4. These so-called strongmen are acting in sync
Mon May 31, 2021, 06:22 PM
May 2021

Belarus, Russia and this morning I heard Erdogan's henchmen grabbed Gulen's nephew (Gulen is accused of masterminding the coup in Turkey. now living in the US. PA, I believe).

And how surprising! Right before the summit between Biden and Putin. Add this to the cyberattacks and I think we can reasonably conclude that Vlad and his friends are flexing their muscles, a We Be Strong moment.

The Axis of Thugs on the move.

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