Putin: Will He or Won't He?

[The Atheist]

Meanwhile, the idea that Navalny isn't Putin's biggest threat has been well and truly destroyed by the unbelievable courage and determination of his supporters.

With an almost-guaranteed chance of arrest, a high likelihood of being the victim of institutional violence, thousands more people have been arrested for showing solidarity with Navalny.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...n-fresh-protests-as-russia-steps-up-crackdown

 

[Allen773]

Quite interesting what Putin had to say

Was it though?

 

[Childlike Empress]

Meanwhile, the idea that Navalny isn't Putin's biggest threat has been well and truly destroyed by the unbelievable courage and determination of his supporters

Again, "arrested" in Al Jazeera talk means having their identity taken and that was it. For the main cause of playing martyr for some clown on the other end of the planet. The people '"arrested" in Vienna today in protests you would never hear about without listening to yours truly face far more dire consequences, and are greater in numbers.

 

[Childlike Empress]

I don't disagree with the thought that Nawalny is Putin's biggest threat, btw. Which is a good thing given that Nawalny is known by more New Zealanders than Moscowers (with the latter being triple the numbers of the first).

 

[The Atheist]

Again, "arrested" in Al Jazeera talk means having their identity taken and that was it.

Because the jails are overflowing with people from the first round of protests.

Trying to find equivalence between Covidiots protesting and Navalny's supporters is quite cute.

 

[The Atheist]

These pictures tend to indicate there was a little more than taking names: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...pport-of-jailed-kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny

 

[Childlike Empress]

Trying to find equivalence between Covidiots protesting and Navalny's supporters is quite cute.

Great that "The Atheist" is here to rule which cause is valid and which cause isn't. Very credible.

 

[The Atheist]

Great that "The Atheist" is here to rule which cause is valid and which cause isn't. Very credible.

A lot more credible than blind praise of Putin.

Political protest is allowed in any decent society; deliberately flouting medical edicts is not.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Great that "The Atheist" is here to rule which cause is valid and which cause isn't. Very credible.

well, both Covid and Putin are killing people, soo.

 

[Childlike Empress]

A lot more credible than blind praise of Putin.

"Blind praise of Putin" is only in your head. From time to time I like to rub original words of the man under the noses of people who have a comic book understanding of Russia and her leader. If only for the opportunity that some less-brainwashed people find something interesting in it.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

"Blind praise of Putin" is only in your head. From time to time I like to rub original words of the man under the noses of people who have a comic book understanding of Russia and her leader. If only for the opportunity that some less-brainwashed people find something interesting in it.

not even Russians believe Putin - it's weird that you do.

 

[Lukraak_Sisser]

The thing that worries me is what will happen post-Putin.

I see a lot of parallels with Augustus. Lip-service to the elected officials while ensuring that those officials are either loyal or token critics, brutal and efficient silencing of any actual critics.
But for the average Russian that is not part of the designated hate groups (Jehova's, Gays, anyone openly critical of the regime) life is probably good. Bread and circuses do work. And while I consider him a autocratic dictator there is no denying he's an effective dictator. In any other time period he would probably get 'The Great' as an epitaph.
However, at some point he'll grow old and either get senile or die. And by that time any democratic process that was present in Russia will be gone, in the same way it had vanished by the time Augustus died.

So the thing will be, who will succeed him. A Tiberius? A Caligula?

 

[Childlike Empress]

btw, Nawalny's "Putin's Palace" video has utterly backfired. Not only has German local media reported that it was produced by "Blackforest Studios" on behalf of Hollywood while Nawalny was staying here on my taxes, Russian bloggers and then Russian mainstream TV have been reporting from the p(a)lace, which has been in the "News" for around ten years and is still very much under construction. It is literally as bad as that they "deep faked" a double-headed eagle onto the entrance that is the version Montenegro, not Russia, uses, that they translated words obviously scripted in English like "Mudroom" literally as "room for mud" into Russian and had the clown Nawalny say it in the video, and that 3D Models for the automatons in "Putin's" alleged gambling room can be downloaded on the net for $14. A German translation of a Russian TV Report is likely the best information available in the Anglosphere about this embarrassing stunt.

 

[The Atheist]

So the thing will be, who will succeed him. A Tiberius? A Caligula?

Interesting question.

He's painted himself into a corner regarding succession, and I imagine it will devolve into a free-for-all among a group of contenders, but which shape it will take after that is anyone's guess.

 

[Childlike Empress]

Interesting question.

He's painted himself into a corner regarding succession, and I imagine it will devolve into a free-for-all among a group of contenders, but which shape it will take after that is anyone's guess.

Of course you know nobody who is in a position to be the successor of Putin because you know nothing about Russia you haven't heard from sources that have beef in the game. My money is on this guy, and you will never have heard of him and have a hard time even figuring out who he is (prove me wrong):

 

[The Atheist]

Here's one where Vlad definitely will...

...take the credit. And rightly so - not much point hacking the west's data then not using it.

The Sputnik vaccine is as good as any available, and better than most because it doesn't require ultra-cold storage: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900622

 

[dudalb]

not even Russians believe Putin - it's weird that you do.

it is bizarre the somebody as far to the left as CE claims to be has such a passion for Putin.
Maybe it's a 'He is still a Communist beneath it all" sort of thing.
or she just hates the West so much she will support anybody opposing it.

 

[The Atheist]

it is bizarre the somebody as far to the left as CE claims to be has such a passion for Putin.

Reminds me of the days union staff used to buy Ladas to show their support of the great communist leadership of USSR.

or she just hates the West America so much she will support anybody opposing it.

FTFY.

I'm pretty sure CE is in Germany, and I think that qualifies as "West".

And I'm also pretty sure that Angela Merkel isn't Vlad's type.

 

[Arcade22]

"Blind praise of Putin" is only in your head. From time to time I like to rub original words of the man under the noses of people who have a comic book understanding of Russia and her leader. If only for the opportunity that some less-brainwashed people find something interesting in it.

The only things you post here, beyond pro-Russian conspiracy theory narratives, is apologetics of Putin and Russia especially after they have committed another new atrocity.

 

[Childlike Empress]

I'm pretty sure CE is in Germany, and I think that qualifies as "West".

And I'm also pretty sure that Angela Merkel isn't Vlad's type.

Buddy, you're literally on the other side of the planet from me. Which has no other side. It's a globe. There is no "West" other than in your head. And Angela Merkel has studied in Moscow which was a thing only regime followers of the DDR were able to do at the time. She and Putin can and do converse fluently in both German and Russian.