• Skua
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    265 days ago

    It’d be cheaper, certainly, but I don’t think it’d solve the problem. I doubt that anyone likely to succeed him is much different to him

    • @[email protected]
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      225 days ago

      Not better people no, but they could hang the whole mess on Putin and have cover to end the war.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 days ago

      I disagree, there is no obvious successor which is deliberate on Putin’s part, so the battle for succession will be at the very least distracting for the military leadership and quite likely to lead to actual conflict. If they’re shooting each other they’re not shooting Ukrainians

      • @Chee_Koala
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        4 days ago

        I’d be the last person I would ask war insights from, but the Russian state is just one big bully cock swinging contest, so I also think if Putin would perish, in their crashing economy, the men next in line would all be falling over each others cocks to get to the throne first, causing significant destabilization. I sure hope so, it seems only fair after all the horror and death they have caused under some bullshit pretense.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      195 days ago

      They can just keep hiring hitmen until there’s just chill successors left 😆