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Joinfortmill

(14,390 posts)
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 08:31 PM Mar 2022

Who's going to remove the world's greatest Menace?

"Putin doesn’t fear a coup by oligarchs. But he should fear his fellow spies...The real threat to Putin comes from the siloviki, a Russian word used loosely to describe Russia’s security and military elite...

FSB officers are skilled at working clandestinely, keeping their most sensitive operations strictly compartmented to small groups...Like branches of an old tree, the kleptocratic autocracy in the Kremlin can withstand the occasional storm, but if the trunk is rotting, the siloviki will take action."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/10/putin-coup-russia-siloviki/

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Who's going to remove the world's greatest Menace? (Original Post) Joinfortmill Mar 2022 OP
Someone who has his trust now. n/t Mr.Bill Mar 2022 #1
I wonder if firing 8 generals is enough to provoke them? SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2022 #2
I thought that as well.... FarPoint Mar 2022 #6
One of the fired generals will get him FakeNoose Mar 2022 #3
Not the Generals, Dan Mar 2022 #15
It could have been either one.... SergeStorms Mar 2022 #4
Trump, Putin or Fox Traildogbob Mar 2022 #19
I wonder if anyone can even get close to him Bev54 Mar 2022 #5
I am sure we can find out... FarPoint Mar 2022 #7
Dang, I thought you were talking about Trump. nt Samrob Mar 2022 #8
I thought that too, but realized we, the American electorate, did that in November 2020 GopherGal Mar 2022 #18
No one will. Haven't you heard? he has nukes. 48656c6c6f20 Mar 2022 #9
Yeah, that's what I've heard too Fiendish Thingy Mar 2022 #12
I've got my hopes pinned on one of Putin's mistresses going rogue. SunSeeker Mar 2022 #10
Putin just put the head of the FSB on house arrest, and fired 8 top generals Fiendish Thingy Mar 2022 #11
It seems hollowed out ymetca Mar 2022 #13
Sometimes it's those they trust the most. paleotn Mar 2022 #14
time always wins Celerity Mar 2022 #16
Which raises the question, what's his replacement going to look like? BadgerKid Mar 2022 #17
That horse face Aid of his Traildogbob Mar 2022 #22
Deep State - Russian Edition Lucky Luciano Mar 2022 #20
With a smile a trusted friend comes to kill you. Just like the mafia. Nululu Mar 2022 #21

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,083 posts)
2. I wonder if firing 8 generals is enough to provoke them?
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 08:48 PM
Mar 2022

Are they going to wind up with another wannabe? Russians are rusty at anything but dictatorship. It would appear.

FarPoint

(12,288 posts)
6. I thought that as well....
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 08:58 PM
Mar 2022

They will probably fall out a window soon....If we sense it...so does Putin.

SergeStorms

(19,186 posts)
4. It could have been either one....
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 08:54 PM
Mar 2022

of two people. I guessed the article was about Trump before reading the body of the article.

I was wrong. It was about the host, not the virus.

Bev54

(10,039 posts)
5. I wonder if anyone can even get close to him
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 08:55 PM
Mar 2022

He previously wanted 40 feet between them but I wonder if now he may only have zoom calls with them???? There has been speculation that he has left Russia and is with his mistress and kids in Switzerland, I have no idea if that is true. It would seem it might be difficult to get to him. I am sure he has a food taster, likely the chef that cooks for him.

FarPoint

(12,288 posts)
7. I am sure we can find out...
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 09:00 PM
Mar 2022

Probably already know if this is accurate...our intelligence network knows.

 

48656c6c6f20

(7,638 posts)
9. No one will. Haven't you heard? he has nukes.
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 09:18 PM
Mar 2022

We have to let him take over the world so he won't use them.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,551 posts)
11. Putin just put the head of the FSB on house arrest, and fired 8 top generals
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 09:27 PM
Mar 2022

So, I guess it depends on who replaces them whether there’s a chance of a coup.

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
13. It seems hollowed out
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 09:34 PM
Mar 2022

like there he is, a black hole encircled by a great emptiness, while a lethal ray spews from his pie hole. Edict this. Edict that. And just death, death, death, in all directions.

I mean, is Russia really even a country anymore?

And why am I worrying so much that this is just the beginning?

Do we really even need to have nations anymore? They seem so... obsolete. Who runs the world now? Which group of thugs now holds all the cards?

The multinational incorporation of all planetary life now leaps to its next phase, eliminating competition, consolidating more power.

The commodification of all planetary resources yearns for self-completion. One world, with all "human capital" integrated into its insatiable quest for total control. (This is the "talk" going on over at Alex Jones, etc., btw)

Just have to murder a billion more people or so, to keep the motors tuned and running...

Power! We need more power!

Koyaanisqatsi

BadgerKid

(4,549 posts)
17. Which raises the question, what's his replacement going to look like?
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 11:01 PM
Mar 2022

Same sh~t, different dictator? Maybe a figurehead plus oligarchy? Given an alleged 60% approval amidst state-run media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Vladimir_Putin), I think there are vested interests to keep the show running there.

Traildogbob

(8,674 posts)
22. That horse face Aid of his
Fri Mar 11, 2022, 11:29 PM
Mar 2022

The one with trump in the Oval Office. The one yesterday saying the maternity hospital was a soldier hide out. I’m starting to get all the Russian murderers names confused. Anyone that get will control our GQP. Except the coin of their realm will not buy much, maybe a few Cawthorn’s, Bimbo Boeberts’s. Not sure they can afford Fox.

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