The best outcome from the Ukraine would be disgusted Russians overthrowing Putin

[andym]

for suppressing their rights and most directly, his unjustified aggression against Ukraine. Perhaps Putin would end up similarly to Ceausescu in Romania-- another autocratic and immoral leader who met an end worthy of his "career". The longer Ukraine holds out, the more chance for disgust for Putin to build worldwide, but most importantly in Russia itself.

[dalton99a]

1. Take him to the basement of his mansion

Give him the royal treatment

[SunSeeker]

9. Works for me! nt

[RockRaven]

2. How would the masses even find him? Unless the stories of him being a "bunker boy" are just BS?

He's a paranoid self-serving mob boss and everyone around him would lose basically everything good/useful they have if he were to fall from that position.

It sounds like nobody not already close to him can get close to him, and everyone already close to him is incentivized to keep him in power.

Let us ponder/consider:
Step 1: The masses rise up against Putin
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Putin is overthrown

What the heck is Step 2? And how does it actually bridge between 1 and 3?

[Obvious85]

13. Someone on the inside, in his inner circle - Trust ME

They can't stand him either, no one likes a Malignant Narcissist Authoritarian. Perhaps someone standing right behind him could take him out, or the one who serves his food. So many opportunities! Let's not kill him right away though, arrest him and drag him through the streets so people can spit on him

[Justice matters.]

16. Massive strikes (with sustained courage)

With the sanctions, the regime will leave them crumbs...

They also face the possibility of a spark, a failed false flag, or anything leading to devastated nuclear winter...

What have they got to lose? What have they got to gain is democratic governance.

[Lithos]

3. No, it would not

Best outcome would also include evidence of Russia's meddling in US politics including evidence of their payoffs to TFG, various Faux f*faces, various proud boys and internet "personalities".

[ColinC]

4. Ukraine*

[mahina]

8. +1

[regnaD kciN]

5. For those who have studied history...

…I feel the need to ask “Is there an Esso station near the Kremlin?”

[andym]

6. Mussolini was another who got a fate he deserved. NT.

[FakeNoose]

28. Italians did him in, but the Allies would have at least given him a trial first

... before hanging him.

[Sugarcoated]

7. I believe it can happen

Maybe the tide is turning...it feels like it to me

[monkeyman1]

10. well Gaddafi was beat to death in a ditch by own people !

[L. Coyote]

11. Protests are building, just day two, watch them grow into a Russian Spring or

a neo-Stalinist suppression-don't underestimate a mafioso dictatorship. But, that path is never sustainable and shorter than the bad guys expect.

Link to tweet

[Duppers]

20. Georgia the country, not the state.

Clarifying, just in case any Repubs are reading.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

21. Trump has already tried to extort 11,780 votes from them.

[Duppers]

23. 😁

[L. Coyote]

25. He's still trying.

[L. Coyote]

24. Putin invaded the nation of Georgia in 2008, Chechnya 1999, Ukraine 2014, and Syria 2015.

Link to tweet

[blue-wave]

12. It's only Ukraine, not "the Ukraine"

It has to do with past foreign occupiers calling Ukraine "the Ukraine" as if it is some sort of possession.

But yes, I agree, Putin is not mentally stable. He has hinted at using the nuclear option and that is something that should never be done. There's something very wrong, likely a physical illness, with him.

[iemanja]

17. False

It has nothing to do what the Russians called Ukraine because there are no definite articles in the Russian or Ukranian languages. This is a Western invention and a debate among Westerners. There is literally no translation in their language or Russia's that expresses "the." So it can NEVER have been used by Russians.

Is THE United States of America a possession? The Netherlands, the Maldives, the People's Republic of China? Exactly who are we as Americans possessed by?

[blue-wave]

19. Sorry to say, but you are wrong

Here, I did your homework for you. As it is officially stated as just Ukraine in their constitution, I suggest we honor the Ukrainians wishes and call their country what THEY name it. And I never said anything about the Russians. Funny you would try to label my words as such.

https://www.wnct.com/news/international/why-ukraine-isnt-called-the-ukraine/



https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844

"The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically and politically, says Oksana Kyzyma of the Embassy of Ukraine in London.

"Ukraine is both the conventional short and long name of the country," she says. "This name is stated in the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence and Constitution."

The use of the article relates to the time before independence in 1991, when Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, she says. Since then, it should be merely Ukraine.

[iemanja]

27. You continue to miss the point

Of course it isn't called "the Ukraine" in the constitution. There is no equivalent for "the" in their language. There is also no "the" before cat, dog, swing, tree, etc..
"I lifted dog," "I pet cat," is how it they speak. You will never see any definite article in the Ukrainian language. So obviously it's not in their constitution, next to ANY WORD. It can't be when the word "the" doesn't even exist in their language.

Your "homework" in no way refutes my point. It's strange, in fact. A person tells you there is no "the" in Ukranian, and you come back and say there is no "the" in the Ukrainian constitution. Wow, what a revelation.

And if you weren't talking about the Russians, how can it expression domination by the Soviets? It was and remains a term used by Westerners who have definite articles in their own languages.

[dchill]

14. Italians came to moderately disapprove of Mussolini, I hear.

So these things do happen.

[dchill]

15. Putin is paranoid for a reason - he knows he ought to be.

[videohead5]

18. Putin has a huge problen

That other Russian dictators did not have...The internet. They can restrict it some, but the real story is getting through to the Russian people. They are not closed off like they were when it was the Soviet Union.

[mucifer]

22. he has lots of nuclear weapons and he's nuts. So I don't think that could happen

[Tree Lady]

26. I heard he has easier access to them than our

Leaders with checks in place. Is that true? That is what makes it scary.