Just FYI, The Sanctions Aren't Meant To Put Pressure On Putin. They're Meant To Put Pressure on

[TrollBuster9090]

...Sergei Naryshkin, and anybody else who has access to novichok poison. (Sergei Naryshkin is the Russian spy chief that Putin humiliated on national television the other day.)

Putin's political rival, Alexei Navalny once mocked Putin by naming him 'Vlad The Underpants Poisoner.' Not Peter The Great. Not Ivan The Terrible. VLAD THE UNDERPANTS POISONER. Mocking his habit of simply having his political rivals poisoned.

Well, guess what? Putin wears underpants, too. The fact that he's probably worried about being poisoned at this point might explain why he's hermetically sealed off from his advisers by 40 foot long tables.

God help us.

[Samrob]

1. So what would happened if all around him just stopped obeying his order and the military laid down

their weapons and refused to fight and all the women of the night refused sex to all the men until they withdrew from Ukraine?

[TrollBuster9090]

3. We'd have a really scary production of Lysistrata?

Sorry, couldn't resist that one.

[madinmaryland]

2. It depends. Yes I am going there...

It may well be possible that he is wearing depends like diapers to protect himself against those type of attacks. He probably learned that from tRump.

[TrollBuster9090]

4. Hah! Yeah, but I think a macho moron like Putin prefers to go 'comando.'

Given his habit of going shirtless, I think he probably likes to impress his buddies by going comando on the underwear. Might have to poison his Judo gi?

[stopdiggin]

5. I think the sanctions went into place

as a (potential) means of gaining leverage over Putin's actions - and not as regime change per se. Things change - and legitimate heads might be looking at 'gaming out' some such scenario now (and I'd be kind of surprised if they weren't). But, again - I don't think that was part of the original game plan.

(The problem with regime change - is the same as with revolution. They're awfully damned messy - and you're never quite sure of what you're going to end up with in the end.)