• FuglyDuck
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    2811 months ago

    Grieving widows blaming the Putie-Bear for their dead husbands making noise is the kind of thing that leads to internal dissent,

    • Flying SquidM
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      1111 months ago

      Yeah, but we’re talking about a guy who had no problem gassing his own people to end a hostage standoff, so I’m guessing any dissent out there he’ll have no problem with putting down ruthlessly.

      • FuglyDuck
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        1111 months ago

        They’ve already had one (aborted) attempt at insurrection, and gassing grieving widows makes for a lot of noise, too

        • Flying SquidM
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          111 months ago

          Exactly. It was aborted. And then the guy behind it was murdered. Putin doesn’t care if he kills his own people. He would either shoot/gas everyone protesting or send them all to the front lines.

      • @uis
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        411 months ago

        He gassed them quietly. It’s his mentality.

    • @takeda
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      511 months ago

      We all concentrate on putin, but even if he would be replaced things likely would continue in the same direction.

      The scary thing is that 5-10 years from now we might have actually Russia attacking a NATO country, and it will test the alliance:

      https://youtu.be/-BfpPVFP7cc

      Many people doubt that this would happen, because Russia looks weak right now, but imagine if there was stalemate in Ukraine and Russia got some time to recover.

      After that it would attack one of the Baltic states and successfully capture its capital, and before NATO will even respond, Russia will say “that’s all what we wanted we don’t plan to go further”. Now (mostly Western European countries) might not want to get into a direct war with Russia and might let it slide. If that would happen it would basically erode NATO, because many of its members would start question what benefit they have for being members.

      What sucks is that even if NATO would plan and would respond as it supposed to, if Russia would believe that this is the likely outcome they might still attack. So NATO needs to act and make clear that it won’t get divided in such situation.