Are there any rumblings on the Russian Coup front?

[Stinky The Clown]

Not the coup they want to engineer here. The internal coup to replace Putin. I keep hearing snippets of thoughts from the various and sundry TVTalkingHedz. Nothing that even represents a complete, cogent thought.

Anything?

[secondwind]

1. If anything along that line is truly going on, we will be the last to know...

That is how I see this.

[Nevilledog]

16. He's isolating himself even more

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

howardfineman
@howardfineman
Word I get from a very good source is that #Putin has cut #Lavrov out of his inner circle. This could be Lavrov spin as he faces financial sanctions and the prospect of war crimes charges. Even so, it’s significant. Lavrov, whom I’ve met, is not as insane as his madman boss.
9:05 AM · Mar 3, 2022

[C_U_L8R]

2. Wishful thinking until it happens.

Same story as every dictatorship.

[multigraincracker]

3. Give those economic sanctions a little more time

to sink in. Won't take too long.

[SheltieLover]

4. 1 oligarch is offering $1m for vlad, dead or alive

But guessing you've seen those posts.

Maybe a start?

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[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. Yep.

And I'll bet that those 2 Oligarchs who had their yachts seized by German and French authorities are none too happy with Putin either.

[Wicked Blue]

7. One million dollars

[SheltieLover]

8. Ty for posting!

[relayerbob]

13. Pocket change

We need a GoFundMe to bump that to $100 million and a new identity for the takers entire family

[SheltieLover]

18. Absolutely agree!

If the offer demands all the putin loving scum. All the anti-democracy dirtbags likely to step into his shoes.

Someone had a thread on this & several felt the site would not allow it, but maybe wording like "putin (& whomever would follow his tactics) in any condition."

[Buckeyeblue]

6. If it happens it will be done quickly without a lot of coordination

I honestly thought it would happen by now but I'm sure Putin still has many loyalists.

[librechik]

9. we don't want a coup. We want the Russian People to demand and get free elections.

And follow Ukraine's democratic leanings.

However, coups happen. Wouldn't surprise.

[Silent3]

10. Coups and free elections aren't mutually exclusive

Not that I've tallied up a list of similar historical events to be sure of this, but my impression is that when dictators like Putin get ousted, they are either killed or escape into self-imposed exile, and then, if free elections follow, they are conducted by an interim government (often the military) formed by the powers drove out the dictator.

I can't think of a case where things have gone this far into dictatorship, and the dictator remains in power but is somehow forced to allow free elections, then simply gets voted out. I don't see how free elections could actually happen while Putin remained in charge.

[Happy Hoosier]

12. Good luck with that!

Putin controls the entire state election apparatus. He will not allow free elections. Ever.

The only way Russia is rid of Putin is:

1) His sudden natural death
2) A coup
3) A popular revolution.

Item three can precipitate item 2. Item 3 is very risky for every day people and they will have to guts of iron to do it.

[librechik]

15. yep--but men over 60 do die naturally

and the other outcomes are devoutly wished for too

[onetexan]

17. i'll take the sudden natural death...as in a quick bullet by one of his officers

[Happy Hoosier]

11. Only the FSB rumor so far...

... that is, the rumor that the FSB leaked information about an assassination attempt on Zelenskyy. And who knows if that is actually true. Could be a total psyop. Probably is, IMHO.

But if it IS true, that would mean serious discontent in the FSB.

[themaguffin]

14. I can't imagine we would know. That would be ridiculous to its cause