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fubo ,

Irritatingly, this suggests that Putin doesn’t really know if his nukes work. If true, this badly breaks MAD.

Krause ,
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this suggests that Putin doesn’t really know if his nukes work

Sweet, more incoherent conspiracy theories backed by Liberal opinion pieces.

Something something Russian oligarchs used up all the money with corruption and the state forgot to maintain the nuclear warheads (you know, the thing that insures America can’t just destroy the Russian state), pretty tired of this garbage.

fubo ,

The Russian “state” rapes its own soldiers, regularly and systematically. And then sends them to go do even worse to the Ukrainian civilians.

It’s really, really not working right. It’s not doing for its own people what those people deserve.

And just because you don’t like the US doesn’t mean you should like Putin’s Russia.

(Me? At this point I’m all for whatever version of socialism or liberalism or social-democracy or whatever that says the Kurdish feminists are right, the Israeli dissidents are right, BLM is right, the Amazonian defenders are right, etc.; — and really, if your government rapes and tortures people, you’re not okay.)

Krause ,
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Me? At this point I’m all for whatever version of socialism or liberalism or social-democracy or whatever that says the Kurdish feminists are right, the Israeli dissidents are right, BLM is right, the Amazonian defenders are right, etc.

Liberalism bombed and still occupies Syria, backs the apartheid state of Israel, persecuted the BLM protesters and is currently destroying the Amazon forest.

fubo ,

Cool story. Putin’s army is currently raping young Russian men to prepare them to go rape Ukrainians.

Like, right now that’s an ongoing thing. Not a previous administration, not a controversial doctrine.

It’s going on right now as you’re reading this.

Putinism is terrible for Russia. Bushism was terrible for Russia too, but that doesn’t help Oleg who’s being raped by his sergeant right now.

CannotSleep420 ,

Putin’s army is currently raping young Russian men to prepare them to go rape Ukrainians.

What rag did you hear that from? Condescension aside, I am genuinely asking.

exohuman ,
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Someone needs to take this crazy man out for the good of the planet

sugar_in_your_tea ,

What if the person that replaces him is worse?

exohuman ,
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One could say that with every election. It’s always a gamble but when you start from such a low point it really doesn’t matter. Putin is a violent dictator using a scorched earth policy against Ukraine. He is ruthlessly suppressing LGBTQ people to the point where their existence cannot be spoke of. He kills his opponents and is engaged in an ongoing Cold War with the USA. He needs to go.

DreamerOfImprobableDreams ,

Also, given the lack of a clear successor, Putin's death would likely lead to a power vacuum and infighting-- which means they'll be too busy fighting each other to focus on attacking us.

133arc585 ,
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Edit to add: I find it absurd how this logic is used so often:

He insisted that Russia was justified in starting the war because Ukraine was run by “Nazis”, even though its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.

It’s logical nonsense to think the two are mutually exclusive. Moreover, it ignores the very real issue of Nazis in Ukraine. We even see this “don’t believe your eyes” nonsense, trying to convince people open and proud Nazis aren’t in fact Nazis.

Shdwdrgn ,

Nobody honestly believes Putin started the war to fight Nazis, he just used it as an excuse because he thought the West would stay out of his way for this flimsy lie. Instead he was quickly called out for using resources such as his own Wagner Group in the war which directly recruit modern Nazis, and thus lost all credibility.

redtea ,

Russia also said demilitarisation and pointed fingers at NATO. If it’s this and denazification, it would suggest that Russia was hoping for NATO/the West to get involved in exactly the way that it got involved.

Further, the Russian perspective is that NATO was already involved by running a coup then supporting about a decade of shelling in Donbass. If that’s the case – and the important detail here is not what westerners think NATO reps were doing in Ukraine all those years, but what Russia thought – there is no logical scenario in which Western involvement comes as a surprise. It was known to be there before the invasion.

And if NATO really wasn’t in Ukraine before that invasion, the point still stands: Russia expected NATO involvement even if it’s initial intelligence was faulty.

That doesn’t mean denazification is the main reason for the invasion. Although there are people who accept that reasoning as it was more than just a Nazi presence. It was an organised Nazi terror campaign against ethnic Russians living in Ukraine, killing thousands.

Shdwdrgn ,

No matter how you look at it, Putin was just swinging his dick around thinking he was a big boy that could tell everyone else where to stick it. I really do believe he thought Russia was a dominant world power, but he’s living in the dark ages and didn’t have a clue that social media can change governments. Zelenskyy knew how to play the game and got people to care about his country again, and that immediately made a difference in how much aid they could ask for.

CannotSleep420 ,

but he’s living in the dark ages and didn’t have a clue that social media can change governments

Isn’t this supposed to be the same guy who allegedly interfered in US elections using social media to put orange man in office?

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