Looks like Putin's going full rogue. As in Kim Jong Un rogue.

[Tommy Carcetti]

Besides recognizing the proxy republics in Eastern Ukraine, he launched into a long screed about the breakup of the USSR, praising Lenin, praising Stalin(!), delegitimizing the very notion of Ukraine as a sovereign nation.

This might even have implications for the Baltic States, which actually are NATO countries as well as former Soviet republics.

He's said all these things in bits and snippets for years. But he's never, ever been this explicit about it.

Link to tweet

Charles Lister @Charles_Lister · 17m

#Putin making his admiration & nostalgia for the #Soviet empire palpably clear right now.

- “Do you [#Ukraine] want decommunization? Well, we're ready to show you what decommunization really is."

Huge, historic & deeply dangerous moment for #Europe & global security.

1:52 PM · Feb 21, 2022·TweetDeck

[cilla4progress]

1. It's on,

then.

[COL Mustard]

17. It's on

Like Donkey Kong!!!

[dchill]

2. Putin is, and has been, "decommunization."

Nothing communized about him.

[crickets]

3. Well, that's not good. *sigh*

[roamer65]

4. I wonder if Putin get bogged down in Ukraine if the Chinese will make a move into Siberia?

They want Outer Manchuria back.

Vladivostok was originally a Chinese city.

[wiggs]

5. Where's the UN in this? Has a coalition been formed to resist this invasion? Why not? There

was in the case of Iraq...do nuclear nations get a pass?

[PoliticAverse]

6. Russia is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and so has veto power. n/t

[Tommy Carcetti]

7. Serious question:

Could Russia be expelled from its permanent position on the Security Council?

Don't think that it would happen even now, because I don't think China would stand for it and would move to veto.

But could they in theory?

[PoliticAverse]

10. It would require a change to the UN charter which requires all permanent members

of the Security Council to agree.

(See: https://un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-18 )

[EndlessWire]

13. Can they make him unpermanent?

He shouldn't even be allowed in the building.

He doesn't care. He'd probably be happy if the UN failed, too. UN and NATO, gone.

[lpbk2713]

8. Would you buy a used car from this man?

[True Dough]

12. Not even a

Lada!

[StClone]

25. A Yugo does seem his style.

[True Dough]

29. Yeah,

"Yugo and make trouble in Ukraine."

[StClone]

31. Tee hee hee

[COL Mustard]

19. HET

I like it because there aren’t many Russian words that you can type in English. Another one is Pectopah which translates to Restaurant.

[llashram]

9. hopefully

this trump puppeteer comes to his senses. And just stick with trump. We will cut the strings.

[liberalla]

11. Damn.

[Blue Owl]

14. He's rearing his head in Sarah Palin's airspace again

[maxsolomon]

15. What does that even mean?

Decommunization means you'll have an Authoritarian occupation?

Didn't they have that under... Communism?

[StClone]

26. Decommunization is not new

Decommunization is the process of dismantling the legacies of communist state establishments, culture, and psychology in the post-communist countries.

[maxsolomon]

28. Is Putin pro-decommunization?

It sounds like a threat.

[SergeStorms]

16. And the people of both countries will suffer.

Pootie won't suffer a bit. The people of Ukraine and Russia will though.

Russians have to rise up and get rid of that madman.

[L. Coyote]

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[SergeStorms]

22. The people of Russia don't see one penny of that.

Pootie is raking it in though, so that should make him (reported to be the world's richest human) laugh all the way to his offshore tax haven.

[L. Coyote]

23. Actually, the Russian state relies on it to survive, and

it pays for the military surrounding Ukraine.

[StClone]

27. Good Point

Pootey does well though as the giant leech on the Russian people and its natural resources.

[SergeStorms]

33. I was talking about normal Russian citizens.

Not the military or the worker bees in government, including military and civilian intelligence.
The people out in the fields trying to eke out a living. They get nothing. They just get to bask in the glorious, glowing aura of President for Life Vladimir Putin.

How lucky they are.

[iemanja]

20. If the USSR hadn't broken up

Putin would not have been able to steal billions of dollars from the Russian people. He's done well under the new Russia.

[FakeNoose]

21. The richest man in the world ... says what????

There's no way Pootie's going to give up any of his vast (stolen) wealth and go back to being a Communist. There's no way any of this oligarchs will do it either. They are pissin' in the wind my friends.

[ananda]

24. He's definitely mentally unhinged now...

Kinda like a cornered rat due to losing his bestbud
Trump in the WH.

[StClone]

30. It word be darkly humorous, even dramatic irony

If the unglued Putin we witnessed is the result of him slowly being stealthily poisoned by a toxin that makes him appear or actually go bananas. Saving the Motherland (or is it Fatherland?) Russia, some conspirators rid the country of Mr. Pee.

[Tommy Carcetti]

32. I'd just happily take a Stalin moment at this point.