I just hope Putin won’t be replaced by someone as bad as him.
Shit in one hand, hope in the other
The entire “ecosystem” of Russian leadership is built around a strongman. If Putin dies, the next one win based on the criteria that made Putin the leader. So there are two options: a big fucking fight, or someone roughly as bad.
And if it’s option 2, their level of shittyness depends mostly on how effective Putin was in defenestrating his rivals.
It will be a big fucking fight, simply because that same ecosystem wasn’t built with power transition in mind. There’s no successor, no committee strong enough to fallback to, no independent power brokers.
The result is pretty much a coin toss, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for a better outcome.
One thing about regimes like Putin’s and Trump’s is that they actively select against clever and competent people. Because clever and competent people are a threat to Dear Leader’s power.
Fear of the “next guy” is the only reason la’orang is still alive. All of this is the fault of people gearing “what’s next”. The number of evil people on earth is finite. Even if the next one is worse, there’s only one way forward. So just take the win. The number of evil is about to drop by one
Russia is a mafia state and russians are buck broken completely to only accept iron fisted otets as they still daily jerk off to stalin and his genocides. I doubt they would knowingly elect a good leader even if they had true democracy, a candiadate and freedom.
As sad as this sounds. This seems to be the state of things. It would require generations to fix this. The best case scenario would be to split Russia into smaller pieces and then fix the individual pieces. Doing the same thing to the US and China. Wouldn’t hurt either.
Hopefully Trump and Putin’s bodies take care of the problems for the world sooner rather than later
The bigger issue is that Trump and Putin are just the most visible part of the problem.
If they both died tomorrow (oh god please), another would simply take their place. It would require a complete deprogramming of their supporters on the scale of Germany in 1945. The problem is that the entire government needs to fall for that to ever even be attempted. It would literally require a revolution or large scale invasion for that to happen at this point, and even then, as we’ve seen with Russia and Northern Africa quite a few times, revolutions have a tendency to just pave the way for the next lunatic to take power.
In USA, invasion isn’t really possible, so it would have to be an incredibly violent and costly (in human lives) revolution, with a slim chance to actually change anything.
An invasion of Russia is probably possible, but it would require some insane inside help to make sure they don’t just nuke everything when they realise they’ve lost anyway. A revolution probably wouldn’t do much, because of the brainwashing problem.
I can’t speak for Putin, but MAGA is a cult of personality. Once HitlerPig assumes room temperature, there will be a vicious battle for leadership, and at least half of the MAGA Morons will drop out without their divine leader to follow. Its very likely they will pivot to making him a religious figure.
The traditional GOP will try to recapture their hegemony over the party, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs will wage a war to keep and expand their influence. They will all try to float a new leader, and we can expect HitlerPig Jr to make a big attempt, but he’ll be recieved the same way as Frank Sinatra Jr - with a yawn. Anyone else will be accepted even less.
I hope the battle for control of the party will result in internecine violence, so the Dems can regain power, and use the crimes and violence of the MAGAs to crush them, and purge them from government and society.
Either or both of them dying couldn’t hurt.
SovietRussian succession always takes a power struggle between rivals before things are consolidated.Vance has the charisma of a turnip.
hey now that’s just mean
turnips don’t deserve such disrespect ;-;
I think if that happened, the push against other nations would at least get a reprieve as infighting takes over, especially if Putin bites it.
There are a lot of people who want to be king and they’ll all likely have plots to take out their rivals and consolidate power
Any micro organism inside of them has my support.
By the time you’re 70/80 years old your thymus has basically just turned into fat cells and can no longer create new T-cells for your immune system. We just need the right microbe to enter.
Propaganda om repeat…
rumors about the Russian leader’s failing health.
Yeah yeah, we’ve had these for years now. Wake me up when Russia’s new president signs a peace deal that isn’t a full on annexation of Ukrainian territories with nothing in return. If that ever happens.
When the time eventually comes, I wonder how big of a bloodbath the change of regimes will be?
It will be true eventually
Putin cancer and Trump legal consequences: this time for sure™️
That’s true. But it’s also true that the guy isn’t immortal.
Technically not proven yet. Hopefully soon.
Haven’t we heard this one before?
Satan is eager to collect.
Iiiiiiin the afterlife, he’ll be headed for some serious strife. He can make the scene all day, but tomorrow there’ll be Hell to pay…
Wow, that’s a flashback.
I haven’t thought about Squirrel Nut Zippers in at least 20 years.
If CK2 taught me one thing, it’s that claim wars automatically end when the claimant dies. As soon as putin keels over all the red flagged armies in Ukraine will go neutral and have to walk back home.
Here’s hoping
Never know what the future will hold
Die, bitch, die. 🙏
🤞
Hooo! If this is true Russia’s in for it. He’s been very effective at eliminating any possible successors. Hopefully the nukes stay safe.
Hell is already salivating
They’ve been needing a new Chief Eunuch…
The next guy will also suck. At this point it’s nerf or nothing for me
The power vacuum will suck, and the next one will suck. But the world will be measurably better once that dictator is dead.
Oh for sure, I am standing hella out of the way of anyone who wants to take a shot at him. I just feel he’s only part of a deeper issue with Russia, and I think everyone would be a lot safer if it was balkanized. I doubt we’ll be so lucky, it must be said.
if the next one is one if the loud ones who post on nazi line, theres a good chance they would be more incompetent. but offset by being more unhinged… looking at you Medvedev…
Medvedev won’t take the reigns, he’s a useful fool, nothing more. Lavrov and Shoigu are my bets.
A hundred dictators is still better than a hundred and one dictator. When one approached a difficult task, it’s better to divide it into smaller tasks.
Instructions unclear, I now have many small pieces of <select dictator> on my living room floor.
…does nerf stand for Nuke (the) Entire Russian Federation here?
Any chance of an orderly and compassionate balkanisation?
No. It stands for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.
I have kept a bottle of bubbles in the fridge for one of two possible celebrations for far too long now.
Am I the other one?
Do you powder your face with orange tang?
He said for a long time. Trumps first presidency was disorganized random shit. Not something to save a bottle for. Besides, even if there was a bottle from 2016-2020, I think it would have been used in 2020 when Biden won. At the time, you’d assume that would be the end of trump, but he’s like a cockroach. Still though, that bottle would be gone. So I think it’s more likely the second bottle would be for Mitch McConnell.
Yeah. He STILL exists. Forgot about him, didn’t ya?
Trump’s first presidency ended during COVID’s first year, he killed hundreds of thousands, excess deaths were over 600k for the first year.
The store has more bottles.
But my point is, he said two OLD bottles. I wouldn’t call 2 months old.
Actually they said they have a single bottle meant for 2 possible occasions worth celebrating. One would be Putin death. Can you guess the other occasion for celebration?
My “bubbly list” is creeping up. On top of the obvious choices, I’ve added a handful of the old guard Democratic dipshits that more or less actively helped us sleepwalk into this complete clusterfuck.
Yeah, but at least we got rid of kissenger.
I hope whatever happens, the world can find some more stability, peace, and freedom soon. This decade will be spoken about for the next couple hundred years at least.
I remember when this decade started and me and everybody thought if we could just get rid of covid everything will be fine again.
There’s no way we have a couple hundred more years on this planet.
I wonder what Trump will do once the puppetmaster has perished.
