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Hekate

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29. As retired Gen Barry McCaffrey pointed out: We're only 4 days in. (Maybe 5 or 6 by now.)

Sun Feb 27, 2022, 10:18 PM

Feb 2022

FFS, less than a week! Wars last for years and years and years.

Unless one of his inner circle SUCCESSFULLY puts him out of our misery, the Ukrainians are not going to be free of his murderous gang for some time.

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So how does this end for Putin? [View all] pandr32 Feb 2022 OP

Maybe like Hitler? Ocelot II Feb 2022 #1

That would be helpful. pandr32 Feb 2022 #3

I would like to see him go the Ceasescu route. smirkymonkey Feb 2022 #37

I find that Putin is so cornered worrying because of what PufPuf23 Feb 2022 #52

I just don't trust him or any "deals" he might try to make. smirkymonkey Feb 2022 #54

Agree Putin gone ASAP and death is preferable. PufPuf23 Feb 2022 #55

A military coup d'etat. roamer65 Feb 2022 #2

Hopefully bad really bad really really bad. Like non-existent bad. JanMichael Feb 2022 #4

I could go along with that. pandr32 Feb 2022 #59

I hope like this ( trigger warning ) lapfog_1 Feb 2022 #5

I'll Duce Treatment has my vote Pachamama Feb 2022 #34

I get a "Hitler in the bunker" vibe here... Wounded Bear Feb 2022 #6

Assassination by poison or bullet? Deuxcents Feb 2022 #7

Or perhaps he'll just fall out a window. dflprincess Feb 2022 #18

Not soon enough SallyHemmings Feb 2022 #8

It all depends on how many loyal like minded sycophants he has on his side. CentralMass Feb 2022 #9

Like Alexei Navalny I hope. no_hypocrisy Feb 2022 #10

ITrading places pandr32 Feb 2022 #60

There will be no winners Tickle Feb 2022 #11

War. barbtries Feb 2022 #21

He will be retired Lithos Feb 2022 #12

I've been thinking the same. I'm sure he's very suspicious mahina Feb 2022 #19

Muammar Gaddafi style Beachnutt Feb 2022 #13

i don't know, barbtries Feb 2022 #14

An odd and fatal stomach complaint or a completely unsuspicious fall from a window. Scrivener7 Feb 2022 #15

I'm hoping it ends with a coup and a firing squad. Crunchy Frog Feb 2022 #16

My fifty cents is on defenestration. n/t TygrBright Feb 2022 #17

Hard to believe he could be talked down from this. Russian Tomconroy Feb 2022 #20

History is full of dictators who cannot be touched except by wholesale revolution or conquest unblock Feb 2022 #22

True relayerbob Feb 2022 #28

trump surrounded himself with people meeting the above qualifications. empedocles Feb 2022 #30

Fortunately for us, Donnie was utterly incompetent unblock Feb 2022 #42

Western secret ops removing him would be best. Dawson Leery Feb 2022 #23

Best if you want WWIII. Fiendish Thingy Feb 2022 #25

A successful western op against Putin pretty much requires inside cooperation unblock Feb 2022 #44

Hopefully conversations between the military and the oligarchs are happening now. Nt Fiendish Thingy Feb 2022 #24

Putin's days are numbered Buckeyeblue Feb 2022 #26

Coup, either shot at that time, or shortly thereafter relayerbob Feb 2022 #27

As retired Gen Barry McCaffrey pointed out: We're only 4 days in. (Maybe 5 or 6 by now.) Hekate Feb 2022 #29

Desert Storm lasted 4 days against a WELL armed (but untrained) Iraq military uponit7771 Feb 2022 #39

Uh no. former9thward Feb 2022 #58

Hopefully, quickly. Optionally, painfully. Lancero Feb 2022 #31

I hope he is poisoned and dies a slow and painful death. BigmanPigman Feb 2022 #32

Goes home in the am in last night's leather pants, new hickey, black eye, broken nose, loose teeth, lindysalsagal Feb 2022 #33

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2022 #40

Only two options that I can see.... both lead to Putin's end Blasphemer Feb 2022 #35

Both of your summations are spot on. It could go either way. In the meantime we must do PortTack Feb 2022 #41

My favorite scenario is... Septua Feb 2022 #36

Mine also. Plus his bunch of yesmen thugs always protecting him. nt Justice matters. Feb 2022 #53

Ides of March approaching. C_U_L8R Feb 2022 #38

Good call..I forgot about that... Deuxcents Feb 2022 #48

Done in by his own troops, preferably. DinahMoeHum Feb 2022 #43

I wonder how his buddy Semion Mogilevich is taking the financial news? airmid Feb 2022 #45

I'm hoping for the military. Maybe he will stroke out, or a big MI. He looks stressed. 58Sunliner Feb 2022 #46

What a read. How does it end? cachukis Feb 2022 #47

Sign at war protest in Europe a couple days ago: Sogo Feb 2022 #49

I'm expecting the oligarchs take him out Ohio Joe Feb 2022 #50

About the same as it ended for Beria jmowreader Feb 2022 #51

I don't know but they need an exit option for him. For the sake Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2022 #56

Something between Hitler in his bunker and Howard Hughes on his Learjet. hunter Feb 2022 #57