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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, did Putin find a cure for that genetic disorder they claimed he had a few years back?
The last reports were that he had three years to live. I hate to say it, but he looks healthy to me.
Prairie Gates
(8,077 posts)Dunking on people who wanted to believe sometuhing three years ago? Everybody also wanted to believe Trump had dementia in his first term. Is that your next target?
Seems like better ways to spend time.
Polybius
(21,868 posts)I use the bookmark option quite often, and if I see predictions that are wild, I sometimes come back months later to ask them what they were thinking. I don't do it to be rude, I do it because it helps them make more reasonable future predictions, and I legitimately want to hear their reply.
Needless to say, they usually don't respond.
Prairie Gates
(8,077 posts)Polybius
(21,868 posts)I have numerous examples.
True Dough
(26,518 posts)but I guess this U.S. administration is enough to make a lot of people upset.
I think it's a worthy question. There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there relating to Putler. You've surely seen that he supposedly has numerous doppelgangers who stand in for him. Not sure if that's true and, if so, how many of them there are.
It's also well known that Pooty doesn't like to put himself in public and be close to others for fear of getting sick, or poisoned, or stabbed. You've seen images of him meeting with people where he's at the far end of a very long table?
I have also seen videos of the purported real Putin and he has a tremor. Then the Kremlin releases a version where AI has been used to remove the tremor.
It's all very interesting to me.
And like Orrex's daily "Is he dead yet" thread, I have the same hopes for the Russian dicktator.
Ponietz
(4,310 posts)As to your question, Zelenskyy and others maintained Putin was replaced by a body double.
In January 2023, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly "questioned whether Vladimir Putin was still alive" during a virtual address to the World Economic Forum and suggested that Putin might have already been replaced by his body double.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_of_Vladimir_Putin's_incapacity_and_death|
Baitball Blogger
(52,268 posts)Polybius
(21,868 posts)He would have to not only look exactly like him, but also sound like him too.
Ponietz
(4,310 posts)Polybius
(21,868 posts)He doesn't appear to be a tinfoil hat type of guy. Probably psychological warfare.
John1956PA
(4,945 posts)However, I do not see evidence that a body double was used at any other time.
Takket
(23,689 posts)people were also posting here rumors that he had cancer. then someone would post a picture of him looking "pale" and Doctor DU took that as proof he had 5 minutes to live. it was pretty absurd.
WarGamer
(18,585 posts)samsingh
(18,409 posts)hunter
(40,657 posts)It'd be no surprise if he outlived many of them.