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[Martin Alvito]

Like a big fat spolied kid in Nursery thrashing about and doing a turd in his keks because people aren’t paying him any attention.

Fat pig

The best way to extract a stream of payoffs from Western democracies is to act like you might be the sort of maniac that would actually use nuclear weapons.

Worked a treat for his father when he was pretending to build them, but eventually people quit believing that one, so he went and actually built them while we all had our hands full with Iraq.

 

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[Martin Alvito]

LL > you. lol

 

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Just spotted it. Absolutely mental situation - imagine being called up to that!

 

[Martin Alvito]

Just spotted it. Absolutely mental situation - imagine being called up to that!

I can only in the sense that I have dealt with leadership that poor in the corporate world. Can't even imagine being a Boy Scout with a rifle in what is functionally the middle of nowhere, no food and members of the cohort that are mental.

Sounds like just cause to take one's chances, do what needs to be done to get out and walk home, or in the other direction, depending on what provides the best odds.

 

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These lads should head back to Moscow and take out their real enemies.

 

[LostLegend]

Imagine someone does oust Putin and Prigozhin ends up trying muscle his way in. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire ?

 

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This is a terrible situation all round. It is 100% on Putin this and the fact that he has escalated the terror he has brought upon Ukraine to the Russians he has mobilised just shows what absolute fiends he and his regime are.

 

[Yarrgh]

Imagine someone does oust Putin and Prigozhin ends up trying muscle his way in. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire ?

It often takes a bigger monster to remove the existing monster.

 

[McBain]

Like in any country people get can brainwashed and others forced to do this stuff, and some people leap right into it believing their leaders.

I cant understand this War at all though, has Putin gone insane or is there some end game only he knows about? Abit chilling if its the latter.

Also just want to say steller work in here, i dont do twitter and its fantastic to see all the links, updates and debate.

 

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Some of the stuff in this thread

It will be another dimension of nuts if Prigozhin is making a play for Putins seat!

 

[peteblue]

You don't get it....

.....its the same cretins that voted Trump and Brexit have destabilised the West to such an extent that Putin has chanced his arm.

There's blood on the hands of Farage et al.

I think it’s you that doesn’t get it. Americans Voted for Trump, the British voted for Brexit. In the case for Brexit, voters of all political parties voted for it. Putin and his followers are the only people to blame for what they are doing in Ukraine….

 

[Martin Alvito]

I think it’s you that doesn’t get it. Americans Voted for Trump, the British voted for Brexit. In the case for Brexit, voters of all political parties voted for it. Putin and his followers are the only people to blame for what they are doing in Ukraine….

So there's this word in the English language: emboldened.

We usually use that one in international relations in the context of alliances, but it also applies to signaling weakness in the face of the threat of force of arms.