Leader of Russia's Communists warns parliament of risk of revolution due to faltering economy

Wait who is that? Missed this

Can't wait for the moment all those russian oligarchs will get killed by their own people. Let's just hope no western country will offer those a..holes asylum. Or at least rob them blank after they arrive.

You're not wrong, but you're also mixing up two unrelated things. Supporting the war and supporting the regime isn't exactly equal. That's the whole reason why Putin's lackeys have been cracking down on more radical war supporters for a while now. That's the reason why they are trying to shut down Telegram: because it's used as a platform for multiple "voenkors" (lit. military reporters) - an alternative source of information for those who support the war, but don't quite trust what the government has to say about it. These voenkors have always been pretty critical about russian military ("in the trenches" sort of way), but their criticism has been steadily growing over the course of war, slowly spilling over to the government and Putin himself. Think of it this way. Even though two groups of people may start from completely opposite political positions, they can still arrive to the same conclusion. "War is bad and criminal" -> "Putin and his regime sucks"; "I support the war, but we're fighting ineffectively" -> "Putin and his regime sucks" - that kind of thing. And that's exactly the thing authoritative regimes fear the most, when unrelated groups of people coalesce into larger groups under the common goal, because that's the process which is impossible to control and grows exponentially. Besides, the kind of people you're describing - it's really not the majority of russian population. I'm not trying to justify anything, but the simple truth is that a radical group can never be an absolute majority of any society. Think of it as super h******* MAGA supporters - they exist, they're loud, but they're absolutely not the majority. Most people just live their lives and don't really care, they voted for Trump because they simply vote for republicans in every election, or maybe because he was talking about economy more, something like that. And it's the similar case in Russia. Most of the people are just indifferent. They support the war not because they're these caricature, cliche nazis, but because everyone around them does. They live their regular lives and they absolutely do feel stuff like growing prices and taxes, mobile internet outages and blocking of Telegram. They're indifferent, so it's gonna take a lot of beating for them to take a stance, but if things continue as they are - it's going to happen eventually. It's just nobody knows when it's going to exactly.

Until it’s not and Tsar gets the Bomba, or a revitalizing dose of lead

Yes, also known as the Good Caliph/Evil Vizier, etc.

He invaded Kuwait 91 and lost that war too, and still maintained power

the us helped sadam against iran afaik, then it was a few years later they destroyed his invasion of kuwait.

Putin keeps power as most Russian leaders have for centuries. No one wants to risk their rival getting the top seat in a power struggle so they put up with him, As long as the war doesn’t affect them directly materially they don’t give a shit, they just enrich themselves.

It's the wicked vizier who is at fault!

Good tsar bad boyars

If only the Führer knew!

Fun fact: You can also use the term *Gleichschaltung* when it comes to electronics, switches and so on.

And Italy is... yeah they're ok

I always just assume it’s going to be us…