Putin needs to be put down like a rabid animal.

[dalton99a]

Cancel his membership card in the human race

[BigmanPigman]

1. I was hoping for that for 4 years during tRump

but I never got my wish. I hope I get to see Putin taken out and ASAP. We could do it but we don't want to start a world war (is that why we don't do it?). Why won't we do it?

[LisaL]

2. How can anyone do it?

What, you think we could send a seal team down there? He is well protected.

[Buckeyeblue]

4. Yep. You never see him outside anymore

He knows he's a target.

[BootinUp]

9. It would have to be more CIA type of operation

where they turn someone on the inside.

[wnylib]

24. Not accomplished overnight.

Takes years to turn someone.

[BootinUp]

25. I'm assuming that in the current situation

that normally required time would be greatly shortened. In other words, someone inside doesn't need too much of a push, due to current events.

[wnylib]

31. But how do you know which someone,

make contact, and get him close enough to someone who sits several yards away from his own advisors in meetings with them?

He definitely needs to be taken out, But it will be tricky and not as fast as we all would like.

I am looking forward to a day of worldwide celebrations when it does happen.

[NNadir]

11. Tsar Nicolas II felt pretty safe, I'm sure, when he helped start World War I.

Another Russian Revolution is hardly impossible.

In 1917, it involved mutinous troops, war losses in a failing war, and a starving population.

The third point might well be obtained with sanctions, as cruel as starvation is.

[former9thward]

48. Russia is a major food exporter.

Their people are in no danger of starving, sanctions or no sanctions.

[NNadir]

61. Modern food production is normally a very much an industrial enterprise involving industrial...

...equipment and transportation including fertilizer.

The Russians are no longer living under normal conditions.

[PaulnFortWorth]

54. All the oligarchs are loyal to money and power...

But when the money drys up, a decision will need to be made for their financial benefit.
Several options occur. Most Russians except Putin agree that Putin is the problem that started the mess. So he must go.
The oligarchs need a functioning, corrupt russia to continue. If the economy is going to crash and nobody is making any money, russia becomes useless to them. Government security is watching them. When the economy crashes so much that security can't function or pay their employees, they will be more than willing to turn on him.
The GRU might take Putin out. This would maintain a structure of government. People could make decisions with Putin dead to stop the fighting.
The world would want Crimea back to Ukraine and Russia to pay damages to Ukraine.
Another option is for the Military to take Putin out. This would pit them against the oligarchs for control. The army would need to be aligned with the GRU and other services in order to maintain control.

And the Ukrainians? The Russian army can give up, surrender or go home. But the Ukrainian army can chase them out of Crimea and regain control.

Will the military and Oligarchs fight for control of the government?

Putin has really screwed things up.

[anamnua]

59. To quote from Godfather 2

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‘Difficult — but not impossible — with respect to Hyman Roth.

[TheProle]

27. You wished for the assassination of an American president?

Jesus.

[Katcat]

39. 😳

I see 😳 what you did there. 😂😂😂😂

[KS Toronado]

52. Welcome to DU!

[BootinUp]

3. It's the only way to stop him in the short term. He'd be a war casualty.

[58Sunliner]

5. Amen.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Those are rough words.

However, I don't think too many people will be surprised if he ends up dead.

[calimary]

42. I don't, either. Sometimes it almost feels like he's barreling toward that, at top speed.

Not sure how else this could end. Besides, there's the face-saving thing, which seems to be fading as a viable option. To back down or capitulate in any way would trumpet "WEAKNESS!!!!" around the world. He wouldn't stand for that. And I don't know what anybody'd offer him that he'd take, especially as he seems to be hellbent on eventual European or Eastern European conquest, and accepting no substitutes. NOBODY seems to take seriously that Vlad wants MUCH bigger things, like forced ownership of the European as well as the Asian continents. He's already taken his version of the Sudetenland now. How anyone ever assumed he'd be satisfied with that - is beyond me.


Hitler evidently handled his own - um - "parting shot" - himself. Could that be in the cards for Putin? Or might that be what somebody in his inner circle ultimately does?

[soldierant]

45. If there's any truth in the report that a Rissian businessman ( oligarch I presume)

has put a large bounty on Putin, that inner circle might just be how it happens.

[Baitball Blogger]

57. There are so many painless ways to go these days.

Lucky him. Somewhere out there is a euthanasia business that probably won't charge him to use their services.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I agree. He's got to go.

One way or another he is going to drag us into WWIII. The sooner we get rid of him, the better. At least we can minimize the damage.

[msongs]

8. just retire him to his condo in deepest siberia nt

[liberalmuse]

10. I think he's certifiably insane.

He really needs to be removed from power before he sets off another world war.

[Karadeniz]

12. I was wondering if, when he meets with advisors, they have to go through a metal detector.....

[highplainsdem]

15. He's probably worried about poison, too.

I doubt he trusts anyone completely right now.

[LiberalFighter]

20. On Colbert last nite he interviewed Fiona Hill.

One time when she was sitting at same table as his he did not eat or drink anything. It was suggested that he was afraid of being poisoned.

[highplainsdem]

21. And now he doesn't want anyone near him at a conference table, either.

[SergeStorms]

35. Like Trump eating McDonald's all the time.

Know one knows which hamberder he'll get, same with KFC etc. He's a germophobe and thinks he's going to be poisoned.

These aurocrats are nuttier than squirrel shit. 🤪

[soldierant]

50. There are ways.

Many are farfetched and/or impracticable. But there are ways. I'm 76 and have been reading detective novel and stories since I was eight.

[leftstreet]

13. JFC n/t

[Cha]

14. Yeah, and you can imagine

how many people feel the same way!

[highplainsdem]

16. I don't have to imagine it. I'm seeing tweets from people who feel the same way.

[Cha]

18. Exactly.. It's Universal!

[highplainsdem]

17. If you search Twitter for "take out Putin" you'll find a lot of tweets

from people who agree.

[former9thward]

49. Twitter and the internet in general have a lot of keyboard warriors.

[LiberalFighter]

19. It would seem that Russia needs to be attack directly. In kind.

[wnylib]

30. In order to release even more

radioactive fallout into the atmosphere?

I am pissed off, too. I want Putin dead and his head on a pike. But it needs to be done more carefully.

I don't know how, specifically. But we do have military and Intel people who can work it out, I hope.

[BlackSkimmer]

62. Putin would like nothing better. nt

[ShazzieB]

22. Agreed.

It's not pretty, but it's the truth.

Look at how many people have already died because of him (and I don't just mean in the invasion of Ukraine). He's like a cancer that needs to be excised to preserve someone's life. Excising Putin would help to preserve tens of thousands of lives.

[iluvtennis]

23. Exactly!

[TheProle]

26. 11905

https://www.britannica.com/event/Executive-Order-11905

[wnylib]

32. Ah, well, accidents do happen.

[SergeStorms]

37. Yeah, sorry about those bricks falling on your head.....

from below. What do they call that again?

Oh yeah, "an act of god".

[calimary]

44. Most interesting.

[Raine]

28. ABSOLUTELY!!! nt

[Wingus Dingus]

29. Yes.

[Warpy]

33. Don't forget Russian intelligence and the yes men at the top of the military

while his paranoia and lust for lost empire might be driving this, he's had a hell of a lot of help doing it.

Personally, I'd like to see him tried in the US for saddling us with TFG.

TFG can be sent to Russia to be tried for flattering and enabling Putin.

[TygrBright]

38. I LOVE this idea, Warpy.... karmic justice at its most sublime. Thank you. n/t

[H2O Man]

41. Correct.

This is the only way that could happen. Unlike Putin's wealthy buddies, these people are likely to see what he is doing to damage Russia.

[Six117]

34. Truth!

[Joinfortmill]

36. Yes.

[moondust]

40. No more public appearances.

He's a very paranoid serial killer who knows most of the world wants him dead as soon as possible. He may be more isolated than ever for the remainder of his wicked life.

[BobTheSubgenius]

43. Do you think we could start a GFM?

I'd contribute!

[L. Coyote]

46. What distinguished the civilized world is not saying things like that.

I'm pleased to be on the civilized side of the line we must never cross.

[hay rick]

51. The "civilized world" is only possible when it is not taken over by monsters.

Tolerating Putin's continued existence makes us complicit in the killing of hundreds of Ukrainians daily. Complete innocence is not an option.

[L. Coyote]

53. The "civilized world" is only possible when we don't all succumb to becoming monsters.

That is why we have war crime tribunals.

[hay rick]

55. The Nuremberg trials were possible after Germany was defeated and occupied.

I don't think that is possible here. The best expected outcome for this war is a truce. I don't believe such an agreement would include handing over Putin as a war criminal. If Putin's assassination shortened or ended the war, the assassination would be an act of humanitarianism.

[radius777]

56. +1. Apathy and appeasement are not virtues.

Monsters who pose an imminent threat to innocent people and to the world more broadly should be taken out. Hitler was allowed to go to far, and history seems to be repeating itself.

[Quixote1818]

47. He's not much better than Hitler and has Hitler potential. He needs to go. nt

[anamnua]

58. I can honestly say that I never despised someone

so much in my life that I never met in the flesh.

[Emile]

60. I'm a little surprised someone hasn't assassinated him already. The Russian

economy keeps going down the toilet, someone will try. It would have to be someone very close to him because he is afraid of his own shadow.