Unsettled Kremlin tightens security around Putin amid assassinations and coup fears, intel report says

His agents think they can convince you otherwise, but first they want you to look out the nearest window...

Just pretend I'm the granddaughter you wish you always had. "Aw, you're still the GOAT grandpa!"

Trump wants to build a big bunker under his ballroom, so I hope so.

He is called “bunker grandpa” in Russia because he flees to his bunker at the slightest hint of upset.

The thing is, he could very well be right. His problem is that at a certain point, it doesn't matter how much support you have, it matters how big the minority is and how much they hate you. Even if 90% of the country are fanatical supporters, 10% is enough people that they're extraordinarily dangerous. They're typically kept in check by keeping them just on the edge, but if the dictator goes too far and gives them nothing to lose, then they start coming for him. If you have 140m people, and 120m of them love you, you have 20m who don't like you. Usually, the dictator is safe from those 20m people because while those people hate him, they don't hate him enough to do anything radical. But if you do something like.... start kidnapping them off the street to feed into a meat grinder in another country where they're nearly assured to be killed or maimed for life, suddenly those 20m people don't just dislike you, they have nothing left to lose. And even if the dictator is shielded from the populace, the people just a step or 2 below the dictator aren't and start getting ideas about what might happen to them.

People don’t matter for coup d’etats. It only takes a handful of friends who don’t think friendship is beneficial for them any more. Happened in Russia many times.

(it's about conservatives)

Leopards something something face.

Or to do a Russian example, Stalin persecuted basically every other notable Bolshevik from the revolution, and then had the person he employed to do that persecuting killed as well.

That last scene from Civil War, Nick Offerman begging...

Didn't they stab him in the a*** as they beat him to death?

Saddam was in a spider hole

Please, please. Let me finish my covfefe.

A sand trap out on the back 9.

Thinking "they'll only look for me at McDonald's"?

I'd say Trump has copied Putin in thinking a war isn't a war because he says it's not a war and fighting stops just because he says it does

Main difference is that America isn't fighting enemies that are close enough to shoot back at its mainland.

If you’re right… Wonder what happens if anything happens to Putin or Netanyahu… like do they have some kind of “dead man’s switch” that releases intel? Or is the next person just going to be able to continue using any information they may have?

Trump would see it as an opportunity. It won't be and whatever he does he will f*** it up greatly.

He won't be out of the news for good. However things turn out, he will remain as a point of comparison when evaluating future polititians alongside Hitler, Stalin, and poor presidents of the past.

They can't appear to be as close as they are. Because they plan to invade Europe together.

Ah yes, it’s there too. Yes Minister and Yes Priminister have similar tropes too.

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Well, maybe in another country it would count. But in the Soviet Union it was modus operandi, so, likely it is not counted anything but just a normality. In other countries maybe the power was given by the people. But in the Soviet Union it was, if you don't take it, no one will give it to you.

Record oil profits doesn't mean anything if your economy is in a death spiral, like you said. This isn't just me saying, either. People in the Russian government are sounding the alarm bells out loud. It's really bad.

I've been definitely seeing this, air defence for Putin and his properties while Ukraine turns the entire front line into a woodchipper for Russian soldiers.