Why it's "Game Over" for P* - and he's starting to realize that.

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Star Member TygrBright (19,295 posts)
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Why it's "Game Over" for P* - and he's starting to realize that.

Autocracy runs on fear.

It gains power by employing "fear of something worse" than the autocrat, but once the autocrat is firmly in power, it runs on fear of the autocrat and the autocrat's apparatus for inspiring and maintaining that fear.

It works extremely well, as long as people continue to fear.

But what happens when fear of the autocrat is replaced by something else?

Could be fear of something worse than the autocrat - nuclear annihilation, the deaths of children, etc.

Or it could be hope of something better than the autocrat.

Most powerful is a combination of the two.

And both of those conditions now exist in *P's area of control.

He's done.

Because fear is the ONLY tool he has left to use.

The sanctions have deprived him of the ability to deploy greed for his purposes.

He only ever had fear and greed, really.

Then, just fear.

And now it's failing.

I wish for him only enlightenment.

determinedly,
Bright

 

Tetrachloride (1,763 posts)

1. I am sorry to disagree. He isn't thru stage 2 of denial and maybe not stage 1

It ain’t beginning to be over until a general is captured alive, until an oligarch does something dramatic to change Russian public opinion and until Trump is put in handcuffs at least once — by law enforcement.

Then Pooty might feel some metaphorical apocalypse

 

Star Member Tommymac (6,185 posts)

4. Game has just begun. Not over until Putin is removed from the Board.

It will be a long haul. Putin has many tricks to play. He has kept his population ignorant of the facts - and it will take months to re-educate just a part of them.

Look at what the Right Wing channels and reTHUGlican propaganda have done in the US over the last 6 years. We are nowhere near deprogramming a third of our population even with the Freedoms we enjoy.

The most dangerous phase is still to come...when Putin feels cornered, will he push the button?

 

Star Member MineralMan (142,344 posts)

5. Well, unless he responds with anger.

I'd rather not see that happen.

Star Member Metaphorical (1,267 posts)

6. Oh, I would disagree on this.

One of the goals of a good military strategist is to fluster one's enemies. To make them react rather than plan, and to make foolish mistakes rather than execute well-designed maneuvers. Putin's beginning to do that. He's losing control of the army and of his intelligence apparatus. He's making strategically weak moves and is losing ground because his generals are becoming more terrified of being killed by enemy fire than they are of being fired by him. These are not the signs of someone who is in control.

The fear, really the only fear that everyone has, is that he will go nuclear, yet I have to wonder. He's been trying to attach Chernobyl to create a nuclear pretext, something that would be easier to do if he was to lob a nuclear missile at Kyiv. I don't think he hasn't done it because he doesn't want to, but because he can't - no one is willing to go that far in Russia, and perhaps because he knows that if he does attempt to go nuclear, the Russian Army will depose him.

 

Eyeball_Kid (6,469 posts)

9. Putin MUST believe that he has a mission to complete. He has at least that much of humanity in him.

Putin to the generals and the FSB officials whom he just fired: Tell me what I want to hear and make it sound like it's what I want to know. If you tell me something that doesn't fit with what really happens, then you're fired and don't come back here again.

That's life under the rule of a despot. Putin wants everyone to please him. So they do. They tell him lies about the war. When he finds that what they tell him isn't a description of the real world, they get punished. So if you're an underling, you can't tell Putin the truth (his military is weak and out of control) without getting fired, and you can't lie to him because you'll get fired.

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Just wanna fix this word salad with the appropriate sign off she/he/it should use.

Stupidly,
Bright

[Drafe Hoblin]

There are consistently large groups of anti-Russian protestors being 'arrested' in Moscow & St. Petersburg, supposedly facing 15-years behind bars.

10-years ago, after Kerry's blunder about how he 'visited all the prisons in Moscow' and the Kremlin showed proof that Kerry never visited anything... adding There are only 4 jail-cells in Moscow.

If that's true, expect to start hearing about riots.  In auditoriums, with police stretched-thin. 

Putin has also derailed the war against the capitalist-workplace.  His 'party' will likely remove him for 'siding with The Military'.  There'll be a 'tough-love' statement from Lavrov.  Then we'll start hearing from Lavrov daily, who has a plan blah blah blah

[USA4ME]

Hey TygrBright, if you ever see this person…



… run away from them. They’re an idiot.

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