Official & big: Putin humiliated the director of the SVR, placed 2 FSB generals under house arrest

[Yorkie Mom]

Now it's official - Kommersant confirmed Gavrilov resigned (his detention is yet to be confirmed).
Putin humiliated the director of the SVR, placed two FSB generals under house arrest and had Zolotov, the National Guard, to fire his deputy -- in the three weeks of the war.

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[Yorkie Mom]

1. Putin Likely to Make Nuclear Threats If War Drags, U.S. Says

Putin Likely to Make Nuclear Threats If War Drags, U.S. Says

Defense Intelligence Agency chief offers a grim assessment
Russia may ‘rely on its nuclear deterrent’ to signal strength

President Vladimir Putin can be expected to brandish threats to use nuclear weapons against the West if stiff Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s invasion continues, draining conventional manpower and equipment, according to a new assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency.

“Protracted occupation of parts of Ukrainian territory threatens to sap Russian military manpower and reduce their modernized weapons arsenal, while consequent economic sanctions will probably throw Russia into prolonged economic depression and diplomatic isolation,” Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in its new 67-page summary of worldwide threats.

... snip

“As this war and its consequences slowly weaken Russian conventional strength,” Berrier added, “Russia likely will increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the West and project strength to its internal and external audiences.”

The Pentagon agency’s grim appraisal of the war’s broader stakes comes on the eve of a call between President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping. Even as U.S. officials struggle to discern China’s position on the war, Biden will seek Xi’s help ratcheting up pressure on Moscow to end it.

More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-17/putin-is-likely-to-make-nuclear-threats-if-war-drags-u-s-says

Discussion: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216495544

[SheltieLover]

2. Pootin sounds frustrated

I wonder if he knows how weak he & his army look, and how amazingly brave, resilient, creative, & strong the Ukranians are?

Doubtful as narcissists think something is wrong with everyone else when they are not receiving praise.

Let's hope someone in his inner circle removes him quickly!

[fierywoman]

6. Just one guy with hands strong enough to strangle him.

[SheltieLover]

9. Or one dose of poison, one cup of tea.

DailyBeast just had an article by a foreign spy talking about who could get close enough to remove him.

According to that person, poison would be the most likely scenario, but nobody can get close enough, what with food tasters & such.

Article said he just fired 1,000 servants & replaced them.

Hope springs eternal! (But will they just install another psychopath? Guessing likely so. )

[SheltieLover]

12. Article link

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-black-ops-agent-explains-how-putin-could-meet-his-end?ref=wrap

[mitch96]

15. "FSB generals under house arrest" If he keeps this up someone in his inner circle is gonna whack him

[SheltieLover]

16. Let's hope so!

[Jarqui]

18. +1,000,000

[regnaD kciN]

3. Some of the people at the top might want to consider...

…that it’s better to be the purger than the purgee. Just sayin’.

[SheltieLover]

10. Good point!

The more of them he jails, the more this is likely to prompt such thoughts, imo.

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[C_U_L8R]

4. Sound like we've entered the final act

And it's a cliffhanger.

[Gore1FL]

5. When this started, I was amazed at how well Ukraine was fighting in the face of sure defeat.

Now I watch with amazement as Putin himself unravels in a way never would have imagined. Real or imagined, the people out to get him have clearly gotten to his head.

I have to wonder if he sees the summer.

[SheltieLover]

11. DailyBeast just ran article by foreign spy on who is most likely to remove him

Seems poison is the most likely scenario. But with food tasters, it's difficult.

Here is article link:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-black-ops-agent-explains-how-putin-could-meet-his-end?ref=wrap

[Gore1FL]

14. Thanks, that article was interesting.

I was reminded of a scene from the 90's TV Sci Fi Series Babylon 5 where someone was given 1/2 a poison. In that case they just have to make sure the food testers are different when the different poisons arrive.

Yes…and it is very interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are harmless on their own. But when combined…quite lethal. The first settles into the bloodstream, and the intestinal walls. It stays there for years. Silent…dormant…waiting. When the other half of the poison enters your system the two meet, have a little party in your cardiovascular system … and suddenly, you are quite dead.

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[SheltieLover]

17. So he could be signing his own death warrant by switching staff!

I wonder if they know this?

Glad you enjoyed article. I always find those sorts of things interesting reads. Sort of an insider's view.

[lagomorph777]

21. Novichok works on contact. No food needed.

Same for many other poisons. There's also air dispersion.

[SheltieLover]

24. So many choices...

Just 1 brave ruskie needed!

I wonder if the person would be jailed, or given hero status?

[lagomorph777]

25. Depends on whether they succeed.

[SheltieLover]

26. Very true!

[Jarqui]

19. Couldn't happen to a more deserving 'smart' 'genius' !

Let's hope the Mar-a-lago Pumpkin follows soon

[musclecar6]

7. Hey

With any luck, Russia’s modern day Stalin/Hitler will assume the Mussilini upside down hanging position at a gas station.

[Cha]

23. Now we're talkin'.. don't these

Mass Murdering Dictators always end of this way?

Sooner than Later for Vlad .

💙💛

[brooklynite]

8. "Russian SVR"

Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation

The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (Russian: Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации, tr. Sluzhba vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [ˈsluʐbə ˈvnʲɛʂnʲɪj rɐˈzvʲɛtkʲɪ]) or SVR RF (Russian: СВР РФ is Russia's external intelligence agency, focusing mainly on civilian affairs. The SVR RF succeeded the First Chief Directorate (PGU) of the KGB in December 1991. The SVR has its headquarters in the Yasenevo District of Moscow.

Unlike the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the SVR is tasked with intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation. It works together with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Главное разведывательное управление, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, IPA: [ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə], GRU), its military-affairs espionage counterpart, which reportedly deployed six times as many spies in foreign countries as the SVR in 1997. The SVR is also authorized to negotiate anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and provides analysis and dissemination of intelligence to the Russian president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_(Russia)

[usonian]

13. Well, you'd be pissed off, too, if your intelligence was utter nonsense.

Don't you think that US intelligence agencies fed TFG utter nonsense, given that he never read it, AND SENT IT DIRECTLY TO HIS LORD AND MASTER PUTIN? (speculation until proven).

He can't blame the mole

Yet.

[BigmanPigman]

20. 6 days ago he put a few advisors under house arrest.....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10603045/Putin-places-head-FSBs-foreign-intelligence-branch-house-arrest.html

Vladimir Putin has placed the head of the FSB's foreign service and his deputy under house arrest after blaming them for intelligence failings that saw his army handed a series of embarrassing defeats in Ukraine, it has been claimed.

Andrey Soldatov, a respected author on the Russian secret services, said sources inside the FSB told him that Sergey Beseda, 68, head of the agency's foreign service, has been placed under arrest on Putin's orders.

Also arrested is Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president. Putin is said to blame the agency for intelligence which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid of their leaders.

Among the reasons for the repressions are the embezzlement of funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine, as well as deliberately false information about the political situation in Ukraine.

The FSB security service allegedly handed him intelligence suggesting that Ukraine was weak, riddled with neo-Nazi groups, and would give up easily if attacked.

[Takket]

22. This is unsustainable for Putin

At this rate all of Russia will be dead from the war or in prison. You can’t just keep jailing your military because you will constantly be backfilling with someone worse.

[lagomorph777]

27. "backfilling with someone worse"

So true!