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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI read today that US intelligence believes Putin is SERIOUSLY paranoid and actually does have "food
tasters" who sample some of everything he eats before he eats it.
It's also been reported that he has discharged and replaced 1,000 of his staff for fear that one of them might poison him.
In this state of mind, I wonder how he would feel if somehow we could let him know every now and then that we know where he is---i.e. in his Kremlin office, at the Duma, in transit in his limo near ____________ ( fill in the blank ).
Or maybe have him open a file and find a note, in Russian, saying "Are you SURE about that new guy? You know the one. Just sayin'---Joe."
relayerbob
(6,510 posts)Repeatedly publishing their plans a few days before they are supposed to happen, with just enough detail to say either you have a mole or weve tapped your comm system. Then theres the reports of getting key intel on troop positions from a FSB leak. Was it? Or just sowing distrust in the government. Either way, it all seems to be working.
EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)meadowlander
(4,358 posts)Oh, whoops...
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)Though of course, that only got him so far.
Celerity
(42,669 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)Putin, you might say, realized Sejanus' failed dream - i.e. to become an inept emperor's (Tiberius') right-hand man, only to before long force him out and replace him himself.
But these characters always forget that dictatorships seldom work, and never end well.
Richard D
(8,693 posts). . . that there are poisons that are invisible, tasteless, and odorless and can take several days to kill.
relayerbob
(6,510 posts)Solid form injected into his cranium.
Traildogbob
(8,584 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,452 posts)He's so fond of using on other people.
Or Polonium.
DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)it needs to be instantaneous. Otherwise he can get to the "button" and show the rest of the world how powerful he is.......
I am thinking that Biden and other world leaders are walking a fine line of not provoking Putin in any major way...........
democratsruletheday
(459 posts)he's pure garbage and needs to go and go now. I'm sure a vast majority of Russians would agree with me
2naSalit
(86,063 posts)The background in his most recent videos, looks like he's already bunkered down.
Igel
(35,197 posts)The one with the camera and the two screens.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is so fearful for his own life and refuses to show his face (unlike Zelensky), but meanwhile he is terrorizing and murdering innocent Ukrainian men, women and children - civilians! - because he feels so weak and powerless and its the only way he thinks he can prove his strength.
Little does he know that he becomes more and more loathsome and hated by the rest of the world with each passing day. I really hope someone does get past his defenses and ends his miserable, pointless life. They will go down in history as a hero to the entire world.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)Fireworks and parties like New Year's Eve 1999.
DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)but more importantly, they are both Narcissistic Psychopaths.......just like so many tyrants.........
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)And then take some corrective measure to atone. But Putin looks like he wants to go out like Tony Montana. Time for his Generals to call in the Russian equivalent of a Colombiann hit team?
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Um
how many staff does he need?
Are there any left?
Hekate
(90,202 posts)You need everything from cooks and servers to clothes launderers and plumbers, to gardeners and builders.
Any of whom bwahahaha could personally want you dead or be susceptible to bribes.
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)That had to drive him over the edge, that someone close to him is leaking and disloyal to him. Trump never got over it.
Traildogbob
(8,584 posts)Scared of dying, how serious is he willing to end all life with nuke exchange. I am certain his oligarch buddies are no ready to stop enjoying all their cash. Maybe some serious ass threats at those billionaires could get them to make a move.
erronis
(14,955 posts)Not a whole lot different from his hero Hitler.
Traildogbob
(8,584 posts)But HE is not the one to push a button. That person he orders may have reservations. Have Pooty eat his pill and push a fake button. Im just not sure the world realizes we are so close to an end. Because of one man one supported by a portion of our country, edged on by free speech. Or free lies. We best savor each day. Another dose of Covid coming, and freaking hand size parachute spiders attacking the east coast with massive web covering. We thought 2020 was a curse, then came 2021. Those were wussys compared to three months of 2022. Seeing a pattern here!
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Michael Weiss was on there, he mentioned Russia planes flying into the Ural Mountains.
Interesting stuff, if you have a moment.
Metaphorical
(1,601 posts)Putin has had problems with protests in many of the Eastern Pacific oblasts (Russian states), and I think it quite possible that, with a significant percentage of the Russian military currently in Ukraine, these states are exploring options, so to speak. It may be that Irkutsk and Kamchatka will be using the Yuan by year's end.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)He's killed / had killed who knows how many via poison. And by them accidentally falling out windows.
It's probably not paranoia at all.
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,452 posts)to validate your paranoia.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)better yet, how dictatorship works.
Kablooie
(18,572 posts)A piloted drone mosquito that lands on a specific person and injects poison.
Smackdown2019
(1,169 posts)Mr. Putin, why change something that is not broken?
After all, the long process of background checks and finding those who are loyal to you in these times is like asking someone on your streets for an honest opinion of you; the lateral would be lies....
In western civilization, you could randomly go the local fast food joint and get your food. Kinda like what our former Orange traitor did during his four-years as your state puppet.
Only one issue nowadays on that advise..... they all pulled out of your country!
So I suggest you consider a yacht cruise.... oh that's right.. the United Nations of the world sunk your boats.... "sunk them into their bank account to funnel money to Ukraine."
So I suggest you learn to make your own meals... not hard. Just remember to turn your loaf of bread to 500 degrees and walk away for and hour. Ensure you batten down all the hatches to ensure the heat does not escape.. and you lock yourself up ....
Metaphorical
(1,601 posts)known and trusted staff, replacing them with a whole bunch of people who have to be vetted in a hurry?
Mr. Putin, here's your new food tester: Natasha Romanoff. She comes very well recommended.
taxi
(1,895 posts)than the one he doesn't?
How hated is someone who is safer with a thousand people who don't know him than he is with a thousand people who do?
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)his mojo, Former Guy could get antsy. Might have to resume groveling to Pootie for 2024 election's sake. (Always will believe Putin has some sordid intel on drumpf.)