Thanks for the good news.
Good joke, but I do feel kind of bad for them.
A lot of innocent people are going to suffer because oligarchs wanted more land to exploit.
There’s also the risk of nuclear weapons going missing. Smaller devices would be easy to remove in the chaos, so I can only hope they are non-functional due to age and/or key parts being stored separately. I really do hope that the people guarding nuclear facilities are a damned sight more competent and motivated than the average conscript if civil war erupts.
Metal Gear Flashbacks
It’s true, but let’s be honest.
An inside conflict would probably result in a less catastrophic, more democratic resolution to this problem.
Let’s just hope that if it DOES happen, Putin’s army & supplies are cut short quickly so nobody (or the least amount) get hurt.
I want to believe, but this idea is worrying, the largest nuclear arsenal in the world in a country in civil war does not sound very good
Bound to happen eventually.
I mean, you’re not wrong. Neither of you are.
It is scary, and the precedent in the world is not for long-term national stability. Even setting aside invasion and occupation, dynasties end, governments fall, and a country’s name might be among its only bits of continuity to the past.
Betting on a country maintaining a continuous government for a hundred years is taking the long odds. Those odds become even worse if the government is relatively new. The USSR lasted less than 70 years, and the current Russian government has only been around a bit over 30(less, if you’d argue that Putin has fundamentally changed it). Stability is truly a bad bet for them in particular.
And they have a giant arsenal of weapons, nuclear and otherwise. “Worrying “ is a fully reasonable response.
When the Soviet Union imploded, they had 30,000 nuclear warheads dotted about in various states. People were predicting that they would be used then as well.
The Elstyn transition was a bit threatening if I remember correctly
Lukoshenko did say that Prigozhin is moving freely in Russia, as opposed to staying in Belarus, as negotiated. Something might be brewing.
Some say that Prigozhin has the rare ability to close windows, thus he is safe for the time being.
I thought Russian windows just never closed at this point
part of the building code: all rooms must be built with an “emergency use” window
Russia has to crack eventually.
Forget fusion, we could access near limitless power if we tapped whatever sustains the Russian mindset of the idiotic descision to send young men to their death in the name of Putin’s hold on power.
Unfortunately, it looks like russia might not be able to recover from this as easily as in the past. Thanks to globalization, it’s very easy for a nation to fall behind others.
They just killed off a huge portion of their able-bodied men. They have a culture of drinking and corruption. These kinds of things don’t just go away when the war is over. The impact from this should be enough to knock russia off of the global playing field for awhile. I’d wager India will take their place before long, if they haven’t already.
People are moving away from oil, too. I guess their only saving grace would be access to previously inhospitable lands due to global warming.
Sorry I got confused. Are you saying that Russia might “not” be able to recover?
Yes, sorry.
That’s all right! Thanks for the clarification
At most, I just hope it’s a coup that removes the current government and then completely withdraws to the pre-2014 borders. However, I suspect that whoever replaces Putin and makes peace won’t exactly be an overly nice person. It’s going to take some ruthlessness to overcome Russia’s security forces and agencies unless they too are on board with the coup.
Nah Putin’s going to be
disappearinghaving people fall out of windows left and right.Need that byline… come on Russians, we need The Defenestration of Moscow.
Rules for Rulers. If the people overthrow the leader & their court, it’s because the military let them.
A Ukrainian general is predicting bad stuff in Russia. Fascinating. Is this news breaking, or what?
yeah sure.
