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Maybe Putin will commit suicide. (Original Post) everyonematters Mar 2022 OP
Not a Chance, IMO OhioChick Mar 2022 #1
No. He thinks he has something to prove. AngryOldDem Mar 2022 #2
Putin is a mob boss. Controls but depends on the oligarchs. Mob bosses only are mob bosses while Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #17
If only 🤞 butt unlikely because he thinks too highly of himself to do himself in. 🙄 nt Raine Mar 2022 #3
Just like Hitler. JasonMain Mar 2022 #4
Perhaps... Or maybe he'll fart out unicorns... RockRaven Mar 2022 #5
$200 billion is a pretty big ego cushion. meadowlander Mar 2022 #6
Maybe he'll commit Russian Suicide. eShirl Mar 2022 #7
I don't think he goes anywhere near fifth floor windows. LisaL Mar 2022 #22
He's too much of an arrogant egomaniacal ass hat. 634-5789 Mar 2022 #8
At first I think he will be furious and blame anyone but himself, but eventually he will come everyonematters Mar 2022 #30
Or maybe not. Boomerproud Mar 2022 #9
By cilla4progress Mar 2022 #10
He already did, by invading Ukraine. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2022 #11
Failure? You've got to be Tickle Mar 2022 #12
An ego like his won't do that. However, if he has read Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," well.... DFW Mar 2022 #13
He won't . He needs a well-targeted drone or some poison but he JoanofArgh Mar 2022 #14
Probably? LisaL Mar 2022 #21
Trump MWLib Mar 2022 #15
Death by prolonged and intense Big Mac ingestion. AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #26
Loves himself too much. DLevine Mar 2022 #16
The narcisistic sociopath's philosophy. Look at any murder/suicide by an ex-lover AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #27
last known photo of Vlad trusty elf Mar 2022 #18
That looks like oil ... speak easy Mar 2022 #25
Maybe it's liquid poo, but it's not accurate. It should be up to his neck. AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #28
Will not happen dalton99a Mar 2022 #19
Silly! Nt USALiberal Mar 2022 #20
He'll take his country and people down with him before he tops himself. Midnight Writer Mar 2022 #23
Not a chance. Happy Hoosier Mar 2022 #24
If attacking radioactive waste dumps and seizing Chernobyl wasn't proof of his total war AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #29
Only if you put those last two words in quotation marks. JHB Mar 2022 #31
As a sociopath and a bully, he would nuke Kyiv and the other cities rather than commit suicide andym Mar 2022 #32
He hasn't failed yet, but he will destroy the whole country before admitting defeat krawhitham Mar 2022 #33
Whatever ends him, I am all for it! Initech Mar 2022 #34

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
2. No. He thinks he has something to prove.
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 04:59 AM
Mar 2022

He’ll go down fighting, and take everybody else with him. And I don’t see the military turning on him, either.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
17. Putin is a mob boss. Controls but depends on the oligarchs. Mob bosses only are mob bosses while
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 07:46 AM
Mar 2022

Mob bosses are only Da Capo while they are producing. Putin isn't producing any more. He controls oligarchs through state apparatus including threats of violence (via subordinates of course) but if push comes to shove and they unite, then that apparatus and threats won't work very well, particularly if the populace feels the same way.

They won't assassinate him but they will convince him to retire to his $1,000,000,000 palace (yes, billion dollar palatial estate) he is building.

The question is, how soon will they act and how long will it take to convince him.

RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
5. Perhaps... Or maybe he'll fart out unicorns...
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 05:07 AM
Mar 2022

But I suspect that the heavy bombing, shelling, and mass murdering of Ukrainians is more likely than either of those first two outcomes.

everyonematters

(3,433 posts)
30. At first I think he will be furious and blame anyone but himself, but eventually he will come
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 04:06 PM
Mar 2022

to realize that the only way out is capitulation.

Tickle

(2,520 posts)
12. Failure? You've got to be
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 07:15 AM
Mar 2022

kidding. If Putin’s intent is to destroy Ukrain he has almost completed it. Watching him annihilate the people of Ukrain is one of the hardest things to watch. I keep switching stations. The only savior for Ukrain is for the Russian people to stop Putin. Then he would kill him self and the world will lose an evil evil man

DFW

(54,370 posts)
13. An ego like his won't do that. However, if he has read Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," well....
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 07:23 AM
Mar 2022

I'm sure he knows how to say "Et tu, Sergei?" in Russian.

It may be too soon to remind him to beware the Ides of March, but come the autumnal equinox, it might be a good time for him to either increase his personal bodyguards (and hope they didn't take a hint from Indira Gandhi's bodyguards), or else get that yacht of his repaired ASAP and book himself a berth in the yacht harbor of Monte Carlo under the name of Luigi Linguini, or some other very NON-Russian-sounding name.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,689 posts)
27. The narcisistic sociopath's philosophy. Look at any murder/suicide by an ex-lover
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 03:02 PM
Mar 2022

"If I can't have him/her, then no one can."

Happy Hoosier

(7,303 posts)
24. Not a chance.
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 11:24 AM
Mar 2022

He is angry, not embarrassed. Other people will pay for his mistakes. The most immediate victims will be Russian soldiers and Ukrainians.

Make no mistake.... Russia took it on the chin in week one, but they are transitioning to a strategy of grinding Ukraine to a pulp.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,689 posts)
29. If attacking radioactive waste dumps and seizing Chernobyl wasn't proof of his total war
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 03:05 PM
Mar 2022

again Ukraine, nothing will be. It's like when the Japanese, when they knew the war was hopeless, littered Jiangxi and Zhejiang farm lands with pathogens so nothing could grow for a few years.

andym

(5,443 posts)
32. As a sociopath and a bully, he would nuke Kyiv and the other cities rather than commit suicide
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 04:08 PM
Mar 2022

He might even attack the West, but I'm not sure that would be considered suicide, since he would be safe in a bunker.

krawhitham

(4,644 posts)
33. He hasn't failed yet, but he will destroy the whole country before admitting defeat
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 04:09 PM
Mar 2022

He will kill every single person in Ukraine before admitting defeat

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