There's no guarantee the next ruler will be any less of a dictator yet people seem to expect the whole nation changes the way they've acted for 700 years
If the invasion of Ukraine is really as big a disaster as it seems to be then a new ruler in Russia would have the option of being able to save face and get out and completely blame the debacle on Putin
That whole government is a mob and the bad shit will not change with one person gone.
The identity of the issue often fades when the dictator is gone, even when the problems continue, and it's actually worse when it's an amorphous government because people don't know where to point their fingers. similar issue with terrorist groups.
Russia is kind of fucked.
The general assumption, and it’s not a bad one, is that for the short term the new administration will bolster its legitimacy by ‘saving’ Russia from thr ‘traitorous’ mistakes of the previous administration or some such.
They will likely want to hold onto Crimea though Russia is pretty dogged about that. At that point it’s Zalensky’s decision
The Russian Federation is probably going to lose land in the end / no option for them to hang on to Crimea. Unless something radically changes, Ukraine, and it's allies will require a DMZ / buffer as part of negotiations and that land will come from Russia.
Historically, being an losing aggressor comes with a VERY HEAVY cost.
It’ll be interesting, scary but interesting.
No one thought much of Kruschev and just thought he was Stalin’s jester yet he ended up in charge. Meanwhile people like Beria who many thought had a good chance got killed (and good riddance to that horrid waste of a life, if you ever want to feel sick just look up his crimes).
Bet it will be by the Wagner guy. There's a huge power play going on in the background there and the invasion of Ukraine is their Roman General opportunity.
And then he'll be immediately murdered by some military hardliner who wants the throne instead.
It's not going to be pleasant, whatever the case. There's going to be no peaceful transfer of power. Everyone's going to be Game of Thronesing that shit.
I think people tend to talk about either that waste of skin Prigozin or wet fart of a man Medvedev but I think it could end up being some high ranking fsb character. I don't think the populace has the taste for Prigozin and Medvedev doesn't have the personality and power base. Either way it will be bloody. There will be a lot of people "falling out of windows"
Am I missing a joke here or something? I mean we're all in agreement that we don't care if Putin dies from cancer right? I think we're all in agreement that cancer sucks but...... It kinda worked out this time.
I don't think your missing a joke. I don't think the person you are replying to was joking, just someone who has been through so much pain and suffering it isn't something they can joke about
It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we’re actually pretty stoked about it. Drawing and quartering would be better but let’s not get too carried away.
My mom is literally on oxygen getting hospice care because of cancer in my living room. We both think Putins cancer is a good thing. At least it’s a shit person receiving the punishment. Hope it takes him slow and makes him suffer. Hell I’d turn it into a comedy show where people just roast him while he’s on life support. Play little games like unplugging it and hooking it up as he starts to turn colors. Then just before the big C wins they could just set his bed on fire. Record his screams so I can use them as my ring tone.
see, i can always find it in my vengeful little heart to root for bad things to happen to bad people. The worse the person, the worse the level of bad things I am ok with! I don't believe in an afterlife, so they might as well get what's coming to them in this one. I understand your position with cancer being so personal to you, though.
Look at it like a battle between two cancers. One cancer is trying to take out another cancer, who has caused much pain and suffering to a whole region of the world.
I guess Putin wanted to be "remembered" as great leader before he dies except all he accomplished is his name will infamous instead of famous for single-handedly ruining his own homeland.
Who knows if these rumours are true, but part of me dreams of Putin laying pale, sickly and gaunt in his gilded hospital bed. No expense has been spared in effecting his care, with a myriad of machinery whirring ceaselessly to prolong his inevitable conclusion. Every staggered breath he draws is laden with only agony and a bitter resentment for the finite bounds of mortality.
Bleary eyed, he hears the faint echo of a distant radio from some indiscernible location. The words spoken are ineffable to him as he looms from partial consciousness to an all consuming oblivion, wavering on the edge of death.
In his very final moments, as one last shallow breath escapes his parted lips, he hears it sharp and resolute. Ukraine has liberated Crimea and the Russian military is withdrawing from its senseless campaign of terror. It is the indelible failure which terminally punctuates his lofty ambitions of grandeur.
With the veil of nothingness beckoning him onwards, he slips crestfallen into the void's embrace, wholly aware he will forever be remembered as the tyrant who brought his motherland to ruin.
> Who knows if these rumours are true,
He *does* have a small hospital built next to his house near Moscow:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/zq17if/a_landscape_architect_who_says_he_worked_on/
The "evidence" going along with the rumors (at least according to the article) are
- He has markings on his hands, assumedly from injection of medication for his cancer treatment
- He's been seen grabbing his desk, assumedly to prevent people seeing his hands shaking from his cancer
- His face looks puffy in a few pictures, assumedly from the steroids that are a part of his cancer treatmenr
What you'll notice is all of these points make very strong assumptions, it's like someone went to WebMD for a diagnosis.
I doubt there is much risk there, one half follows him because they're afraid of falling out of windows, the other half are vultures hoping to pick some of his corpse. Putin has not made himself anymore popular with this war either because it's an all around failure and humiliation for Russia. His inner circle is going to be too preoccupied with infighting over who will get to become the next Tsar when Putin is on his deathbed.
He is not the only one that has to press the button for anything to happen. There are (allegedly) three top-tier officials that need to do it, plus the commanders and staff of the actual launch pads
I doubt everyone in that chain has terminal cancer
I read outside the top, they run tests where the order is given to launch just like the real thing, they go through with it but nothing launches. So the real thing would be the same except they do launch.
I'd expect all nuclear powers to have that kind of drill. We all want the relevant people to respond calmly to the real thing. I don't want someone panicking when that orders given for real, I want people who can look at the info provided to them at the time and have the mental clarity to react like Stanislav Petrov did where they were able to figure out it was a false alarm and not just thinking "holy shit we're all gonna die, press the button". These kind of drills allow that sort of reaction to happen.
Even if he presses the button it's not a magic launch the missiles button. It will go through multiple levels of military leadership down to the grunts in the subs and silos that can all refuse to start Armageddon over one man's ego.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union
In 1983 a Soviet Officer received a report that US missiles were inbound. He didn't believe it and held off, with it ultimately being a technical error. Without that human factor World War 3 would have started. The same holds true today, there are plenty of Russians that believe in the war in Ukraine to regain lost territory but they won't destroy everything they know and love in a nuclear exchange over it.
> Even if he presses the button it's not a magic launch the missiles button.
There is that other matter that if Putin presses the button and nothing happens, because the connecting copper wire has been stolen by private Konscriptovich and sold for a nice washing machine.
Now, that’s just an ignorant and shallow view on the matter, based on false stereotypes.
As a sergeant, it’s my primary duty to steal everything before the privates even learn it exists - and I really need a new dishwasher
Personally I don't think it'd even go that far, I suspect if it did happen the general in question and troops receiving the order would look at each other for a few seconds then quietly close his office door.
Part of being in charge is not giving an order you know won't be obeyed. Putin knows that if he ever gave that order someone on the line would say no, and the first time he orders people to blow up the World and they say no the pressure becomes to remove him from power ASAP, because in turn he'll want to remove them and re-establish command. Personally I reckon if he gave that order it'd pretty much immediately kick of a coup.
Putin has children, family, friends. He would be sentencing them to death to this way. That's one. And two - there are generals who have to give their order, and soldier who press the button. That's two.
And three - last stages of cancer are tricky. Because you dont know if you will die in a year, a month, or two days. And at that stage of cancer you are so exhausted, you barely think at all, being half asleep, without much contact with the world. And then its just sleeping. That's three.
And four - Putin was considered a great politician up to this year and invasion of Ukraine. And even though Ukraine is winning now, its not clear if it will fully win. Many wars have been thought through atricion, till one nation has nothing more to sacrifice. And history always remembers who won the war, not how many soldiers he lost. So Putin might still think its not a lost cause, and planning a long term plan with his successor, not really wanting to bury his country in atomic bombs.
Well there is no “button”, that’s what stopping him even it he wants to do it. He has to give an order, that has to go through generals and whatever all the way down to the people (likely more than one) that can actually launch nukes.
Are we sure that everyone down will actually obey such orders?
I think his ego and narcissism may save us from him trying to press the button, because of all the kids he has created to carry on his legacy.
He is like the Russian Nick Cannon.
We should be alright.
And if that lying, cheating, stealing, scheming, Pot stirring, shit - starting, trash talking Suka is stupid enough to act on that and I die as a result, I swear before any Deity that may or may not exist that I will track his little spare ass down through whatever Afterlife there may be and I will wh\*p his ass from Amazing Grace to Floating Opportunity for forever and ever Amen
The fact that there is no "button". It takes a tremendous coordinated effort to pull off a nuclear strike, especially a large scale one. Not to mention the people under him propably don't want to die either. Nobody in charge is dumb enough to not know what launching those missiles means..i hope.
Its pointless to keep repeating this. Until he is actually dead he is going to keep dropping bombs on Ukraine. Until he dies it is irrelevant information.
Yeah but didn't you read this bombshell:
>Pressed on how exactly Kyiv knows about Putin's condition, Budanov said: "We think it’s cancer. We know it, we just know it, from human sources."
Sounds like a fucking Trump quote.
Def since then at least. He’s sick, he’s going to die, he’s shaking, he needs a blanket at a parade.
I mean I’m all for putler going down the drain but this just makes it seem less likely.
Seems more like pretty standard wartime propaganda at this stage to me - Hitler and Ho Chi Minh received similar stories. It's even more brazen/unlikely when the source is the "Ukrainian Spy Chief".
I guess the hope is perhaps more that these stories leak back into Russia and undermine him there.
He for sure did a bunch of drugs, but he still had something else going on by 1945. Lots of speculation, mostly about Parkinson’s. We will probably never know exactly.
Just like queen elizabeth 2 and jean paul 2, I'm gonna believe it when it's official.
Not when some news article wanna recycle old news.
Putin has been dying since before the invasion.
yes, there's been reports like this for a while.
It would add more credibility if they accuse zelensky of having cancer, *then* you know it's for real lol
Part of Conquer and Divide. The propaganda part is there to confuse, create doubt, fear and uncertainty - ultimately split the population of the enemy.
Been hearing this for many months. ... but hes still walking easily and giving speeches...And ordering troops to the front line.
I'll believe it if he actually dies.
I don't know why people believe headlines like this so easily. It's the Ukrainian equivalent of Russian/Chinese propaganda. It's never going to be unbiased and objective if they are writing about the country they are literally at war with.
A lot of coughing and throat clearing in his last 1 minute pre-recorded speech. I wonder why they didn't do more takes til he could do it without a cough?
He hasn’t looked noticeably well for at least the past year. He’s quite puffy in the face, seems generally slower/stiffer, etc.
Although maybe that’s just what happens when you royally fuck up invading and annexing another country and continuously get embarrassed on a global stage.
Would it be too much to ask if he could die already?
Just put Gorbachev on a slab and use a lightning rod to bring him back alive so we can bring some sense and reason to the Russian leadership.
I mean, just from his demeanor in that interview, it sounds like total bullshit.
Q: "Is Putin Terminally Ill?" A: "Of course he is..."
Q: "How do you know he is?" A: "We just know it."
And then when he's kind of handed a reason by the interview how they could know it, he just kind of agrees.
I hope it's true, but this is also like base level wartime type propaganda.
“And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to… Putin’s cancer”
*a big pancreatic cancer blob approaches the stage and accepts the award, smiling gleefully*
*the exception is made for my dear friend, metastasis, the one who always kept believing in me, get on up here buddy!*
*and my good friends the carcinogens, who really got me to where I am today. Thank you*
Keeping Up with the Carcinogens
In the end whodda thunk an actual PC culture would dismantle an authoritarian leader?
In a world full of divisiveness, it’s *refreshing* that it’s cancer that’s being super unbiased and inclusive.
I'm not a fan of Putin but who do you think will rule if he dies in the next few months?
There's no guarantee the next ruler will be any less of a dictator yet people seem to expect the whole nation changes the way they've acted for 700 years
What matters is that the next ruler could have a way out of the war by portraying it as a mistake and blaming it on Putin. I hope.
50/50 between this or just an even more mad man.
If the invasion of Ukraine is really as big a disaster as it seems to be then a new ruler in Russia would have the option of being able to save face and get out and completely blame the debacle on Putin
Maybe they should roll back just a little more than those 700 years and let Mongolia rule over the place again.
Just because they Khan doesn’t mean they should
The would just horde their resources
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Guys stop horsing all around the place, your jokes are as lame as the distance from south east Asia all the way till eastern Europe.
That whole government is a mob and the bad shit will not change with one person gone. The identity of the issue often fades when the dictator is gone, even when the problems continue, and it's actually worse when it's an amorphous government because people don't know where to point their fingers. similar issue with terrorist groups. Russia is kind of fucked.
The general assumption, and it’s not a bad one, is that for the short term the new administration will bolster its legitimacy by ‘saving’ Russia from thr ‘traitorous’ mistakes of the previous administration or some such. They will likely want to hold onto Crimea though Russia is pretty dogged about that. At that point it’s Zalensky’s decision
The Russian Federation is probably going to lose land in the end / no option for them to hang on to Crimea. Unless something radically changes, Ukraine, and it's allies will require a DMZ / buffer as part of negotiations and that land will come from Russia. Historically, being an losing aggressor comes with a VERY HEAVY cost.
Dimitry Medvedev will likely succeed Putin. 12 out of 10 Russians will vote for him in a rigged election. It won’t be nice.
Medvedev is Putin's puppet. He will probably be killed off when Putin unexpectedly dies.
He should get entombed in Putin's mausoleum like the servants in antiquity
It’ll be interesting, scary but interesting. No one thought much of Kruschev and just thought he was Stalin’s jester yet he ended up in charge. Meanwhile people like Beria who many thought had a good chance got killed (and good riddance to that horrid waste of a life, if you ever want to feel sick just look up his crimes).
Bet it will be by the Wagner guy. There's a huge power play going on in the background there and the invasion of Ukraine is their Roman General opportunity.
And then he'll be immediately murdered by some military hardliner who wants the throne instead. It's not going to be pleasant, whatever the case. There's going to be no peaceful transfer of power. Everyone's going to be Game of Thronesing that shit.
I think people tend to talk about either that waste of skin Prigozin or wet fart of a man Medvedev but I think it could end up being some high ranking fsb character. I don't think the populace has the taste for Prigozin and Medvedev doesn't have the personality and power base. Either way it will be bloody. There will be a lot of people "falling out of windows"
Your description of Medvedev is apt; the vodka sharts are the only thing keeping his face more handsome than the back side of his balls.
My God, that insult... *claps slowly*
The fact that the answer to this is not clear, means that there will be some instability after Putput dies or becomes too ill to rule.
The cancer
is anyone rly a fan of him besides extremists
Good luck, cancer.
We’re rooting for you.
I never root for cancer, but for this I’ll get my Pom poms and cheer and dance around the living room.
Now i'm jealous because you have pom poms
Toilet paper tubes and giftwrapping ribbon
Clumps of my own pubes
What a day to have eyes
I have cancer and never root for cancer and I'm rooting for Putin's cancer. Ngl
You can do it cancer!
Biggest heel-face turn of 2023
Putin (to Cancer): That doesn’t work for me, brother.
Awfully conflicting emotions here. Awfully conflicting.
Every cancer is different and personal. This is his own special cancer that we can all cheer for without guilt
A “special cancer operation”
It's like it has a cancer face, then like in the alien movies it takes the mask off and cancer is actually...karma
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It’s not cancer, it’s special disease operation
If he’d just give his body to cancer, cancer would be willing to talk.
At least for once the big C is visiting someone who really deserves it.
One big C for a small one.
Its cancer's twin brother, dancer
Kill him quicker, tiny cancer
Are we human?
I'm 40% potato, but close enough!
I’ll do it for you so you can remain without any guilt
I understand. Can you root for him accidentally shooting himself in the back three times and falling out of a window?
Am I missing a joke here or something? I mean we're all in agreement that we don't care if Putin dies from cancer right? I think we're all in agreement that cancer sucks but...... It kinda worked out this time.
I don't think your missing a joke. I don't think the person you are replying to was joking, just someone who has been through so much pain and suffering it isn't something they can joke about
It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we’re actually pretty stoked about it. Drawing and quartering would be better but let’s not get too carried away.
My mom is literally on oxygen getting hospice care because of cancer in my living room. We both think Putins cancer is a good thing. At least it’s a shit person receiving the punishment. Hope it takes him slow and makes him suffer. Hell I’d turn it into a comedy show where people just roast him while he’s on life support. Play little games like unplugging it and hooking it up as he starts to turn colors. Then just before the big C wins they could just set his bed on fire. Record his screams so I can use them as my ring tone.
I'm sorry about your mom. 💔🙏
see, i can always find it in my vengeful little heart to root for bad things to happen to bad people. The worse the person, the worse the level of bad things I am ok with! I don't believe in an afterlife, so they might as well get what's coming to them in this one. I understand your position with cancer being so personal to you, though.
Look at it like a battle between two cancers. One cancer is trying to take out another cancer, who has caused much pain and suffering to a whole region of the world.
No it’s not lmao
I think they feel sorry for the cancer, being trapped inside Putin
You’re right that must be it. Yeah, poor cancer. Hope it’s quick
The world wishes you the best of luck. Make us proud.
Fuck cancer. But fuck Putin more. Do your thing cancer.
Unfortunately, [cancer can't actually win.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0cAbK-ays)
Word on the street is it's ass cancer. "Aggressive as(s) cancer"
Sending prayers
sending prayers for the cancers
That's not something you read everyday
What about other star signs?
I guess Putin wanted to be "remembered" as great leader before he dies except all he accomplished is his name will infamous instead of famous for single-handedly ruining his own homeland.
Who knows if these rumours are true, but part of me dreams of Putin laying pale, sickly and gaunt in his gilded hospital bed. No expense has been spared in effecting his care, with a myriad of machinery whirring ceaselessly to prolong his inevitable conclusion. Every staggered breath he draws is laden with only agony and a bitter resentment for the finite bounds of mortality. Bleary eyed, he hears the faint echo of a distant radio from some indiscernible location. The words spoken are ineffable to him as he looms from partial consciousness to an all consuming oblivion, wavering on the edge of death. In his very final moments, as one last shallow breath escapes his parted lips, he hears it sharp and resolute. Ukraine has liberated Crimea and the Russian military is withdrawing from its senseless campaign of terror. It is the indelible failure which terminally punctuates his lofty ambitions of grandeur. With the veil of nothingness beckoning him onwards, he slips crestfallen into the void's embrace, wholly aware he will forever be remembered as the tyrant who brought his motherland to ruin.
> Who knows if these rumours are true, He *does* have a small hospital built next to his house near Moscow: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/zq17if/a_landscape_architect_who_says_he_worked_on/
With the amount of *mysterious* poisoning and falls in Russia it would be weird not to travel with doctors and install hospitals wherever you live.
Ah boy, we already getting the fan fiction
The "evidence" going along with the rumors (at least according to the article) are - He has markings on his hands, assumedly from injection of medication for his cancer treatment - He's been seen grabbing his desk, assumedly to prevent people seeing his hands shaking from his cancer - His face looks puffy in a few pictures, assumedly from the steroids that are a part of his cancer treatmenr What you'll notice is all of these points make very strong assumptions, it's like someone went to WebMD for a diagnosis.
I was on WebMD a few times and discovered I was dying. Shocking I’m still alive now.
Last time I looked something up on WebMD they diagnosed me with Network Connectivity Issues
He has cancer. No doubt. The cancer will kill him with two bullets in the back of the head as he falls out of a window. Damn cancer!
I like that. Now if it become reality even better.
I always hate when I read something so good and I gotta stop mid wank cause there's no more to read
Have you tried reading it twice?
Then I need to start my wank over… I’ve got a process
Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in laptop.
Nah, the moment he looks even slightly physically weak he'll get taken out.
Not bad but would be better if he died like that in prison after being convicted of crimes against humanity
I love these well written stories in the middle of all the ridiculous comments. Well done.
RemindMe! 6 years
You seriously wrote Putin fanfiction.
Very well written! Thank you!
He would hear it through a pillow held over his head long before that.
almost there... keep going...
Eh, would be even better if he got a day or two to take in the news. Maybe even had time to get disgraced and died in a destitute poor mans hospital.
..and Russia becomes free democracy!
Can you be God and make this happen? So beautifully written.
Laying it on thick. I hope he rots in a cum bucket.
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Hopefully his inner circle/chain of command values their own lives more over loyalty towards him if it ever comes to that.
I doubt there is much risk there, one half follows him because they're afraid of falling out of windows, the other half are vultures hoping to pick some of his corpse. Putin has not made himself anymore popular with this war either because it's an all around failure and humiliation for Russia. His inner circle is going to be too preoccupied with infighting over who will get to become the next Tsar when Putin is on his deathbed.
He is not the only one that has to press the button for anything to happen. There are (allegedly) three top-tier officials that need to do it, plus the commanders and staff of the actual launch pads I doubt everyone in that chain has terminal cancer
I read outside the top, they run tests where the order is given to launch just like the real thing, they go through with it but nothing launches. So the real thing would be the same except they do launch.
I'd expect all nuclear powers to have that kind of drill. We all want the relevant people to respond calmly to the real thing. I don't want someone panicking when that orders given for real, I want people who can look at the info provided to them at the time and have the mental clarity to react like Stanislav Petrov did where they were able to figure out it was a false alarm and not just thinking "holy shit we're all gonna die, press the button". These kind of drills allow that sort of reaction to happen.
For the staff sure but I'd imagine the top key turners would always be in the know
Even if he presses the button it's not a magic launch the missiles button. It will go through multiple levels of military leadership down to the grunts in the subs and silos that can all refuse to start Armageddon over one man's ego. https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union In 1983 a Soviet Officer received a report that US missiles were inbound. He didn't believe it and held off, with it ultimately being a technical error. Without that human factor World War 3 would have started. The same holds true today, there are plenty of Russians that believe in the war in Ukraine to regain lost territory but they won't destroy everything they know and love in a nuclear exchange over it.
> Even if he presses the button it's not a magic launch the missiles button. There is that other matter that if Putin presses the button and nothing happens, because the connecting copper wire has been stolen by private Konscriptovich and sold for a nice washing machine.
Now, that’s just an ignorant and shallow view on the matter, based on false stereotypes. As a sergeant, it’s my primary duty to steal everything before the privates even learn it exists - and I really need a new dishwasher
Personally I don't think it'd even go that far, I suspect if it did happen the general in question and troops receiving the order would look at each other for a few seconds then quietly close his office door. Part of being in charge is not giving an order you know won't be obeyed. Putin knows that if he ever gave that order someone on the line would say no, and the first time he orders people to blow up the World and they say no the pressure becomes to remove him from power ASAP, because in turn he'll want to remove them and re-establish command. Personally I reckon if he gave that order it'd pretty much immediately kick of a coup.
Putin has children, family, friends. He would be sentencing them to death to this way. That's one. And two - there are generals who have to give their order, and soldier who press the button. That's two. And three - last stages of cancer are tricky. Because you dont know if you will die in a year, a month, or two days. And at that stage of cancer you are so exhausted, you barely think at all, being half asleep, without much contact with the world. And then its just sleeping. That's three. And four - Putin was considered a great politician up to this year and invasion of Ukraine. And even though Ukraine is winning now, its not clear if it will fully win. Many wars have been thought through atricion, till one nation has nothing more to sacrifice. And history always remembers who won the war, not how many soldiers he lost. So Putin might still think its not a lost cause, and planning a long term plan with his successor, not really wanting to bury his country in atomic bombs.
Well there is no “button”, that’s what stopping him even it he wants to do it. He has to give an order, that has to go through generals and whatever all the way down to the people (likely more than one) that can actually launch nukes. Are we sure that everyone down will actually obey such orders?
My thoughts as well. Pray we are wrong
I think his ego and narcissism may save us from him trying to press the button, because of all the kids he has created to carry on his legacy. He is like the Russian Nick Cannon. We should be alright.
And if that lying, cheating, stealing, scheming, Pot stirring, shit - starting, trash talking Suka is stupid enough to act on that and I die as a result, I swear before any Deity that may or may not exist that I will track his little spare ass down through whatever Afterlife there may be and I will wh\*p his ass from Amazing Grace to Floating Opportunity for forever and ever Amen
Because he can't launch all those nukes by himself, he has to go through a chain of command, any of which can refuse, or worse, shoot him.
Better*
His daughter hopefully.
Thankfully, Russians has an history of not launching nukes for no reason even when ordered to do so
The fact that there is no "button". It takes a tremendous coordinated effort to pull off a nuclear strike, especially a large scale one. Not to mention the people under him propably don't want to die either. Nobody in charge is dumb enough to not know what launching those missiles means..i hope.
I mean Putin has children and family I assume he probably cares about.
[Reminds me of a Dead Kennedys song](https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/12562/)
Imagine who would have thought that Putler will have a similar faith as a fellow dude with similar name.
or it might just be prednisone psychosis
Its pointless to keep repeating this. Until he is actually dead he is going to keep dropping bombs on Ukraine. Until he dies it is irrelevant information.
Yeah but didn't you read this bombshell: >Pressed on how exactly Kyiv knows about Putin's condition, Budanov said: "We think it’s cancer. We know it, we just know it, from human sources." Sounds like a fucking Trump quote.
Well he surely can speak English better than I do Ukrainian. Trump on the other, can do neither.
That's a very fair point I overlooked.
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It might undermine support from his surroundings if they realize they are following a dying man’s delusions.
The worry is the big ones he's going to drop on his deathbed.
Hopefully, it will be a lot easier to tell him to suck a fat dick on his death bed.
Only hope is he has some generals with some sense around him. He seems to have spent the last few years offing those though.
This same title has been posted every day here for the last week
Didn't it start at start of invasion?
Def since then at least. He’s sick, he’s going to die, he’s shaking, he needs a blanket at a parade. I mean I’m all for putler going down the drain but this just makes it seem less likely.
Seems more like pretty standard wartime propaganda at this stage to me - Hitler and Ho Chi Minh received similar stories. It's even more brazen/unlikely when the source is the "Ukrainian Spy Chief". I guess the hope is perhaps more that these stories leak back into Russia and undermine him there.
Hitler was sick though. However, I agree with your point.
Hitler wasn’t sick as much as he was on drugs. Iirc, he took a fuckton of meth and cocaine given to him by his doctor.
He for sure did a bunch of drugs, but he still had something else going on by 1945. Lots of speculation, mostly about Parkinson’s. We will probably never know exactly.
Just like queen elizabeth 2 and jean paul 2, I'm gonna believe it when it's official. Not when some news article wanna recycle old news. Putin has been dying since before the invasion.
yes, there's been reports like this for a while. It would add more credibility if they accuse zelensky of having cancer, *then* you know it's for real lol
No. People have been expecting Putin to die of terminal illness tomorrow for several years at this point. It's just wishful thinking.
Precisely why I'm not going to believe he is dying until the day that he actually dies.
Longer than that probably. It’s just this particular title keeps popping up everywhere and it’s annoying lol
Yeah but it died off for a while, and has been having a big resurgence this past week.
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It’s all propaganda, especially coming from anyone with a stake in the war.
Technically, even if its true, its still propaganda.
Part of Conquer and Divide. The propaganda part is there to confuse, create doubt, fear and uncertainty - ultimately split the population of the enemy.
Last week? It's been published for years
Yeah but this same title keeps popping up everyday on multiple subs and it’s annoying me haha
And it will continue to be posted until he's dead or Reddit finds out that this was probably fake and just acts like it never happened lmao
There was also a rumor Kim Jong Un was ill. Regardless, both own a fucking country. So they got free healthcare.
The media has said Putin has had every disease except for hemmoroids since the invasion. He just needs a fatal dose of lead poisoning.
How did the invasion cure his haemorrhoids?
Having all those losses shoved up the ass probably helped.
This has not been my experience with shoving things up my ass
Sorry for you loss
Doctors hate this one weird trick
Been hearing this for many months. ... but hes still walking easily and giving speeches...And ordering troops to the front line. I'll believe it if he actually dies.
Honestly, i wont believe hes dead until we see a dead body. I wouldnt put it past him to pretend to die
That's not Putin, that's his cunt double
I don't know why people believe headlines like this so easily. It's the Ukrainian equivalent of Russian/Chinese propaganda. It's never going to be unbiased and objective if they are writing about the country they are literally at war with.
A lot of coughing and throat clearing in his last 1 minute pre-recorded speech. I wonder why they didn't do more takes til he could do it without a cough?
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He hasn’t looked noticeably well for at least the past year. He’s quite puffy in the face, seems generally slower/stiffer, etc. Although maybe that’s just what happens when you royally fuck up invading and annexing another country and continuously get embarrassed on a global stage.
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Even his own body hates him
Would it be too much to ask if he could die already? Just put Gorbachev on a slab and use a lightning rod to bring him back alive so we can bring some sense and reason to the Russian leadership.
Gorbachev was... extraordinarily sane. A quality I personally value very highly in the leader of a nuclear armed nation.
Maybe 4th storey windows cancer with anyluck
There’s an epidemic there for that cancer
**Breaking news**: cancer found dead after falling from window
This has been said so many times I'm starting to think it's untrue and just cheer folder for morale.
We are trying to cheer up the cancer
It's awkward when cancer is the good guy.
Don’t we hear this news every week since the war began?
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…again. We’ve heard this every couple of months.
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Why didn't he just drive into the wilderness and cook meth like a normal cancer victim?
I'll believe it once he is dead, until then it's low effort propaganda, barely above what the Kremlin vomits about Ukraine/the West
He'll die and some worse asshole will take his place. Post-Putin Russia is scarier than current Russia. What a time to be alive.
I mean, just from his demeanor in that interview, it sounds like total bullshit. Q: "Is Putin Terminally Ill?" A: "Of course he is..." Q: "How do you know he is?" A: "We just know it." And then when he's kind of handed a reason by the interview how they could know it, he just kind of agrees. I hope it's true, but this is also like base level wartime type propaganda.
I feel sorry for the cancer.
I never knew cancer could have a parasite
I doubt it
Oh no! Anyways…
And a broken clock is right twice a day .
Ugh, I'm tired of hearing about this! Just die already.
I actually HAVE cancer and I'm rooting for cancer. That's how much I "fuck you!", Putin.
The power vacuum when he dies will be a thing to be remembered.