OT: World Politics

[lecoqsportif]

How long does Putin have left? Not sure how he makes it out of this now.

He might last a while because about 60% of the population is inert and 20%, liberal democrats, are threaten with legal harassment, disenfranchisement, exile, or worse.

His main threat comes from the bug-eyed ultra right who want to nuke Berlin and Washington.

But the end will be very ugly no matter what happens with the war.

There’s no succession system (that’s why he constitutionally extended his dictatorship), there are a multitude of rival power camps (KGB, military, private militias) and there are a lot of embittered people were crushed/destroyed by this regime (including some Chechens) and its high living beneficiaries that used to have property in South Beach, London and Tuscany. These gangsters basically stole the whole economy, monetized it and plunked it into western assets/banks, and have convinced the rubes to be canon fodder for their imperialist fantasy that serves as bread and circuses.

It’ll be a meltdown.

 

[oscarheyman]

I watched ten minutes of that.
That’s fucked.

Especially when you consider there are buildings, bridges, other structures in China going back hundreds of years that are still around while "modern structures" are probably lucky to last a fraction of that period.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Winning hearts and minds.

 

[Wayward DP]

assuming this was not sabotage, karma's a bitch

 

[Wayward DP]

kinda fucked:

 

[Stinky]

I wonder what the responses to that question would be in the United States

 

[LeafGm]

kinda fucked:

Not really surprising. Marine Le Pen is an outright fascist, white supremacist and Putin lickspittle, and garnered 41% of the vote in the last French Presidential election.

And Germany has no shortage of far-left tankies (particularly in the former East Germany) as well as far-right neo-Nazis that all come together to support Putin.

 

[Wayward DP]

I wonder what the responses to that question would be in the United States

sadly they mostly seem to split among party lines these days, IIRC

 

[MindzEye]

I wonder what the responses to that question would be in the United States

Putin would be a legit challenger for Trump in the republican nomination race.

That's not even a joke.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Yep.

 

[LeafGm]

Ooof. Talk about a complete and utter failure to read a room.

 

[Wayward DP]

https://twitter.com/ThreshedThought/status/1691503364129865728

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Ooof. Talk about a complete and utter failure to read a room.

Who is the brain-dead, geographically-challenged agent that booked them to play in that Georgia?

 

[MindzEye]

kinda fucked:

 

[MindzEye]

 

[MindzEye]

Taking their sweet ass time, but it's slowly happening.

ATACMs next pls.

 

[lecoqsportif]

 

[axlsalinger]

thanks for posting, great video. still really hard to understand why these "all imperialism is bad" people then turn around and ignore or support Putin's nihilistic imperialism. It's fucking bizarre.

 

[MindzEye]

Because America bad


That's it. Thats the rule. Analysis can stop now.

 

[Volcanologist]

Because America bad


That's it. Thats the rule. Analysis can stop now.

yeah this is the BeLeafer ethos. any behaviour is excusable as long as it can be anti-American.