I support Putin, because there is no practical alternative in the near future.
It’s not like Russia has a well-oiled transition machine where if he were to leave office, everything would smoothly shift to a new regime that brought unicorns and love to all.
We’d be rolling the dice on a rogue’s gallery:
Maybe we’d get someone Yeltsin-ish, who is buddy-buddy with the West by allowing the widescale plundering of Russia’s assets, and further driving their quality-of-life metrics into the dirt, starting the cycle that leads to another strongman.
Maybe we’d get someone even more militant than Putin, especially if the war leaves them spiritually depantsed. Launches nukes or directly engages a NATO member. Putin may have a taste for blood, but he’s not on a suicide mission.
Or maybe we’d just get someone incapable of holding the federation together, creating a new Balkan-style slow-motion crisis. Whee! Squabbling new nuclear states with the GNP of a Carl’s Jr. franchise and unknown leadership… that’s not going to cause proliferation issues.
I still believe there are options to wind down the war, but the West will refuse anything that smacks of a concession for as long as possible. Conversely, I suspect what Putin wanted from day 1 was some form of formal concession-- the fact he got foreign powers to give up something is more important than the specifics delivered, for the sake of displaying his power at home.
Putin is big part of the reason why there is no alternative. It won’t emerge specifically because of him.
Which, in turn, means we have to consciously go through the path of uncertainty (i.e. fight Putin) before it hits us anyway. Waiting is delaying the inevitable, all while people die and economy is crumbling.
Yeah, they kinda did that whole thing once before in the 90s and ended up like this. And since Putin has been doing everything in his power to stay the ruler instead of actually improving his country.
If he actually thinks Russia cannot function without him, or if he only cares about power and wealth in the end does not matter the result is the same.
I support Putin, because there is no practical alternative in the near future.
It’s not like Russia has a well-oiled transition machine where if he were to leave office, everything would smoothly shift to a new regime that brought unicorns and love to all.
We’d be rolling the dice on a rogue’s gallery:
Maybe we’d get someone Yeltsin-ish, who is buddy-buddy with the West by allowing the widescale plundering of Russia’s assets, and further driving their quality-of-life metrics into the dirt, starting the cycle that leads to another strongman.
Maybe we’d get someone even more militant than Putin, especially if the war leaves them spiritually depantsed. Launches nukes or directly engages a NATO member. Putin may have a taste for blood, but he’s not on a suicide mission.
Or maybe we’d just get someone incapable of holding the federation together, creating a new Balkan-style slow-motion crisis. Whee! Squabbling new nuclear states with the GNP of a Carl’s Jr. franchise and unknown leadership… that’s not going to cause proliferation issues.
I still believe there are options to wind down the war, but the West will refuse anything that smacks of a concession for as long as possible. Conversely, I suspect what Putin wanted from day 1 was some form of formal concession-- the fact he got foreign powers to give up something is more important than the specifics delivered, for the sake of displaying his power at home.
This is exactly the type of logic used by conservatives to resist any progressive agenda, and one of the many ways redfash unmask themselves
ROFL.
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Average Pootin supporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsdm5mlzmiE
Putin is big part of the reason why there is no alternative. It won’t emerge specifically because of him.
Which, in turn, means we have to consciously go through the path of uncertainty (i.e. fight Putin) before it hits us anyway. Waiting is delaying the inevitable, all while people die and economy is crumbling.
Yeah, they kinda did that whole thing once before in the 90s and ended up like this. And since Putin has been doing everything in his power to stay the ruler instead of actually improving his country.
If he actually thinks Russia cannot function without him, or if he only cares about power and wealth in the end does not matter the result is the same.