If the sanctions work better than expected

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and things get disastrously bad in Russia an dpeople starve and die and the outlook for him is os badthinking he lost, it may be time for him to do something insanely fanatic.

When someone has nothing to lose, you can never tell what they might do.

Here's hoping there are some level-headed Military people close enough to Vlad to bring him dowm in that event.

Give Peace a Chance!

Otherwise...

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1. So what are you saying? DON'T do sanctions? Or are you saying that we

are all gonna die?

Either way, I disagree with you entirely.

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4. Definitely DO the Sanctions and more

I just feel he is unstable enough that if things go very badly for him, he may just decide to chuck it all and do something beyond crazy!

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2. We see how well the threat of sanctions worked.

I think Putin told us to stuff our sanctions. Now, I guess the next thing that we will say, is "Well, you just dare to cross THIS line..."


We have a war on our hands whether we decide to participate or not. Putin quoted Davy Crockett when he said, "You all can go to Hell, I am going to Ukraine." Or something to that effect...Ukraine adds a hell of a lot of wealth to Russia to be split among Putin's circle of crooks. The only question is, "Who will be next."

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3. Who is "him?"

Putin?

Russians took to the streets by the tens of thousands when the Soviet Union collapsed. With the army in Ukraine, who is left in Moscow to defend him?

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5. And they will probably do it again

This time with the police and maybe a majority of the military.

Some remember the taste of freedom after the old Soviet Union collapsed. Things were much better for a while. Fast food chains, more toilet paper... Then things slowly started going badly again and I think they have had enough of Putin.

We'll see.