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More like Stalin in this regard, it's going to be the Stalin purges 2.0. But his model of government, in particular the role of the oligarchs, is probably closer to Nazi Germany than Soviet communism. There is no party ideology in Putin's government, only Putin - 'Two legs bad, Putin good'.

I just watched a clip from one of my favorite finance/investment vloggers about the direct daily cost of this war for Russia, $20 billion US a day according to a consulting firm. That's just the direct short term costs and doesn't include the flow on effects from sanctions and corporate withdrawals.

This almost certainly means the sanctions will stay for as long as Putin is in power. There is a way out of this mess for the benefit of the entire human race, and it starts and ends with one person.

Too similar power set to Reed Richards, FF are set for phase 4 intro.

A bit tasteless and insensitive. What's wrong with Palestinian women?

Canon fodder is exactly what Syrian mercenaries will be, if the Russian army is clearly having difficulty co-ordinating even basic combat operations (let alone multi-domain operations), what is going to happen when thousands of non-Russian speaking troops untrained in these types of operations...

This particular issue will result in the entire Russian cival aviation industry shuddering to a complete halt within a couple of months according to an industry analyst I just read. Even the PowerJet Sam146 engine powering the Russian built Sukhoi super jet 100 is a joint venture project with...

I'm not familiar with that game, the term was coined during the Soviet era referring to bioweapons programs. The Chimera Project attempted in the late 1980s and early 1990s to combine DNA from Venezuelan equine encephalitis and smallpox at Obolensk, and Ebola virus and smallpox at Vector. The...

Unleashing a Chimera virus in Ukraine and blaming those research labs is a real possibility, and Putin is fully capable of such a move. Both China and Russia are directing an unusual amount of attention on these research labs which are clearly not conducting bioweapons research.

Yup, unrestrained power with no checks and balances combined with declining cognitive functions in an already pathological megalomaniac. The only hope for peace is a coup.

I'll give you three specific words to describe his state of mind: Advanced Onset Dementia.

There is a theory that Putin is suffering some degree of dementia which is looking increasingly believable, he has been shown to display some of the physical symptoms such as shaking . Irrationality, paranoia and a detachment from reality are some of the mental symptoms. It's a sobering thought...

Know thy enemy I'm guessing looking at that collection, and nice touch with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers. I was thinking the other day there was some mention of Russian mobile crematoriums, it reminded me of Suvorovs first day on the job with GRU when his new CO showed him the film of a man...

And he has skipped past any pretense of communism in his ideology going straight to Stalinist authoritarian rule. No need to bother with a workers revolution, or collectivisation. And he has a populace already conditioned to accept it, and the state apparatus basically intact to enforce it...

If I am following this correctly, all of the civilian buildings being bombed in Ukraine have Nazi battalions situated in their basements. But they haven't been bombed by Russians because Russia hasn't attacked Ukraine (straight from Lavrovs mouth), the Ukrainians are bombing their own buildings...

Pootin may well decide to nuke Kyiv if a siege drags on long enough and Russian casualties keep on mounting. This could possibly end the war if they take out Zelensky and decapitiate the Ukrainian government, but would Ukrainian resistance necesarily falter in the wake of a nuclear strike? And...

Make of this what you will, but those practices still persist today in the Russian military (and the PLA as well). There is a theory doing the rounds that Putins generals didn't think Putin was going to actually invade Ukraine until shortly before the order was given. Consequently, field...

So why choose to live in a country and support these principals that you don't agree with. By living in the US and paying taxes there a person would by supporting those policies they don't agree with.

A person undermines their own arguments against a country and its first principals when they have chosen to live there and benefit from that countries first principals. It's a fair question, why choose to live somewhere if you are so critical of it, a person has the choice not to live there.

Have to wonder what Kadyrov was promised for his support in this 'special military operation'? Knowing his barbaric attitude towards women, the pick of young Ukrainian woman as sex slaves for his harem perhaps?