New world order: Putin dies, successor adopts democracy and joins NATO, Trump leaves NATO and goes full authoritarian, US becomes new dictatorship while Russia becomes new leader of the free world.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I always wondered about his health. I've seen state photos of him sitting at the end of a ridiculously long table. People interpreted it as a power move, but it could also be because his immune system is fucked. Not a doc, but I know there's quite a few treatments that end up suppressing the immune system.

Although given the amount of people he's ordered poisoned, I'd want to keep my distance from everyone who might hold a grudge too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Putin being at the end of the table is probably because he's terrified of being assassinated, but the photos of him at the last Victory Day Parade look terrible. Out of makeup, he looks look a walking corpse.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If Putin dies, a successor might (secretly) align with Ukraine. Something like "If you attack XX, I will remove my troops from ZZ, if you don't attack me. I will be focusing on a bread & butter campaign if I run Russia. Take care of my rivals in the meantime, mm'kay?"

Mind, I would prefer Russia outright being conquered and Marshall Planned into something completely different, but I would accept the other scenario if the outcome could be decent. In this case, Ukraine gets back Crimea and all other territories, plus security guarantees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (20 children)

Marshall Plan

who would invest in russia? honestly? belarus? it's other parasites?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Oh, geez, we can only hope it's soon.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No matter how many bad people are waiting to take his place, one less Putin in the world is a net positive.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

His replacement will almost certainly be bad but they will have the opportunity to hang the whole Ukraine debacle on Putin and end the war. No certainty of this of course, but it's possible.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'll believe it when I see it.

He's a hard cockroach to get rid of.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Evil has a way to endure. Just look at Mitch McConnell.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So far in our species history, the most rich and powerful have not been able to defeat father time (they want to, but they can't figure out how ... Yet).

When I watched the first season of altered carbon, all I thought of was how the worst of our species will be the ones to live forever. I think avoiding death is really just a bio-engineering problem, and will be figured out if climate change doesn't unalive us all first

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's see them escape heat death of the universe

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're giving him the Lenin treatment before he's even dead

He's going to be around forever

Only the good die young, assholes live FOREVER

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Stalin tried to enforce the Lenin treatment for himself...

It doesn't always stick.

The next person to gain power is 100% going to clean house, because the Russian government is a pit of back biting vipers.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Did Zelenskyy say anything about which window Putin will be dropped off?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Please someone send this to uplifting news.

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