"He's Not Ready": Putin's Regime is Totally Unprepared for What's Coming - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

This video breaks down why Vladimir Putin’s regime is entering its most dangerous phase yet — not because of NATO, sanctions, or foreign enemies, but because of a fundamental mindset shift happening inside Russia itself. For years, the Kremlin believed that sealed borders, nonstop propaganda, and fear would keep society obedient. That illusion is collapsing. As inflation rises, wages stagnate, savings disappear, and everyday life becomes a constant survival struggle, millions of Russians are no longer asking ideological questions — they’re asking how to live and why they should keep pretending this system works.

The video explains how Russia’s so-called war economy has turned civilians into economic hostages, where the only jobs that pay are directly tied to war, weapons production, or military contracts, while teachers, doctors, engineers, and small business owners sink deeper into poverty. It explores how poverty doesn’t create loyalty, but resentment, especially when people see elite corruption, luxury lifestyles, and children of officials living abroad while ordinary families downgrade food, delay medical care, and lose promised compensation for fallen soldiers.

You’ll also see why fear no longer produces control. Instead of stability, Russia is trapped in paralysis — fear of mobilization, police checks, inflation, online speech, and arbitrary punishment. Trust in institutions is evaporating, conversations are changing, and dissent no longer needs leaders or protests to spread. Finally, the video exposes the regime’s fatal flaw: loyalty is transactional, and even police, soldiers, and bureaucrats are feeling the same pressure, exhaustion, and disillusionment as everyone else.

This is not a prediction of instant collapse or street revolutions. It’s a warning about a slow, grinding internal breakdown driven by hunger, debt, grief, and humiliation. When survival replaces belief, authoritarian systems stop functioning. And when loyalty finally runs out, no amount of repression can hold everything together.

[Turbineguy]

1. Kleptocrats don't know there's limits to how much you can steal.

[Safe as Milk]

2. What they already stole is never enough. That appears to be a natural outcome.

Once people grant to themselves the authority to take from others, they accumulate the kind of power that can only be regenerated by repetition of theft. They simply cannot spontaneously reform their ways and feel relieved that they amassed a fortune without accountability and call it good. They thirst for more. Always.