Why Not Just Kill Putin?

[Serb]

Nothing. There are heroes and there are villians. He is my hero! A true American hero!
That's all.

[SlowwHand]

Thanks, Serb.

[Serb]

I was talking about the other Texan (Russell Bentley), not about you!

[Geronimo]

We will intercept most of your ICBMs.

do you have a source that supports that level of ABM effectiveness or are you just making assumptions based on the fact that the new ABM interceptors are faster than the older ICBMs?

[Proteus_MST]

Interesting twitter thread by former russian state secretary Kozyrew,
about the motives for Putin, why they are (in Putins world view) logical ...
and why Putins sabre ratting with nuclear weapons is just for show

https://twitter.com/andreivkozyrev/status/1500610676926005251

[Serb]

You mean the traitor whose motto was "Russia has no national interests"?
The guy who is living in Florida now and receives a US pension?

Thank you for your valuable input!

[BeBMan]

Interesting twitter thread by former russian state secretary Kozyrew,
about the motives for Putin, why they are (in Putins world view) logical ...
and why Putins sabre ratting with nuclear weapons is just for show

https://twitter.com/andreivkozyrev/s...10676926005251

Interesting

His third point pro a rational Putin about the West is the most puzzling to me in all of this (if we assume that is what Putin and his underlings thought).

Yes, there is the Afghanistan withdrawal, and there was a rather weak response to Vlad over years.

But from there to completely misjudging the capabilities and the political will in Ukraine and the West is a long journey.

Afghanistan may have looked bad, but it did not fundamentally change the military or economic potential of the US/Europe/Allies. And outright agression in Europe rather helped political determination of the US/Europe/Allies.

If it's just a complete miscalculation Putin may still be rational, just wrong. Otherwise he could indeed live in a fantasy-land

In any case smart it is not.

[Wezil]

I really don't think Putin expected the Ukrainians to fight.

[Serb]

You call a capitulation within a three weeks a fight?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

You've capitulated? Why wasn't that on the news this morning?

[Wezil]

You call a capitulation within a three weeks a fight?

You were going to crush them in 3 days. Remember?

[BeBMan]

Let's see if it evolves further. First days, now weeks...

[Serb]

That was a figure of speech!

[dannubis]

You call a capitulation within a three weeks a fight?

No. But shelling cities and shooting fleeing civilians isn't one either... unless you are a NAZI.

[Serb]

Your puppet lacky Nazi Ukraine was doing excatly that for an eight years, but you didn't care!

[Serb]

You've capitulated? Why wasn't that on the news this morning?

Because that was in your wet dream!

[dannubis]

Your puppet lacky Nazi Ukraine was doing excatly that for an eight years, but you didn't care!

So you are admitting you are a NAZI.
Now that we got that out of the way, I think I see what Ukraine's NAZI problem is...

[BeBMan]

Your puppet lacky Nazi Ukraine was doing excatly that for an eight years, but you didn't care!

Putin's justification to meddle in the Donbas was - in his view - the protection of ethnic Russians there. That's remarkably similar to the German position and course of action in the late 1930ies, for example to steal the Sudetenland in 1938.

[Serb]

The only exception is that Germans in Czechoslovakia didn't fight for their freedom, there was no civil war and none of them have been systimatecally bombed for an eight years.

So, keep lying!