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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)







The Clamp

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They should offer $20m and safe passage out of Russia to anyone who kills the ****.

He wouldn’t make it through tomorrow .
 


jcdenton08

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They should offer $20m and safe passage out of Russia to anyone who kills the ****.

He wouldn’t make it through tomorrow .
How could they possibly guarantee safe passage? To even get physically close enough to Putin you need the highest clearance. All the guns soldiers carry around him are unloaded by his “elite bodyguards” before he arrives.

If somehow you were able to “turn” one of his closest goons, it’d be a suicide mission for them with no hope of escape or collecting the bounty. They’d have to be acting for purely patriotic/ideological reasons and accept their life is forfeit.

It’s a Hitler situation, he’s almost untouchable by a lone assassin.

When he does go, it’ll be like Stalin with a mass uprising. Dragged through the streets.
 


raymondo

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The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in the abduction of children from Ukraine.

It's a start👍
 


A1X

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They couldn't even decide if Murali was a chucker or not - what hope have they got of pulling this off?
They probably decided a while ago but then had to check with Indian they were happy with the decision first.
 




sparkie

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The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in the abduction of children from Ukraine.

Excellent news.

You never know.

After he eventually flees to Venezuela an arrest isn't out of the question.
 


peterward

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How could they possibly guarantee safe passage? To even get physically close enough to Putin you need the highest clearance. All the guns soldiers carry around him are unloaded by his “elite bodyguards” before he arrives.

If somehow you were able to “turn” one of his closest goons, it’d be a suicide mission for them with no hope of escape or collecting the bounty. They’d have to be acting for purely patriotic/ideological reasons and accept their life is forfeit.

It’s a Hitler situation, he’s almost untouchable by a lone assassin.

When he does go, it’ll be like Stalin with a mass uprising. Dragged through the streets.
Stalin?

you mean Mussolini, Ceucescu, Gadaffi?

Its been written Putin is terrified of ending like Gadaffi, so here's hoping thats exactly how it ends.

 
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vegster

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May 5, 2008
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How could they possibly guarantee safe passage? To even get physically close enough to Putin you need the highest clearance. All the guns soldiers carry around him are unloaded by his “elite bodyguards” before he arrives.

If somehow you were able to “turn” one of his closest goons, it’d be a suicide mission for them with no hope of escape or collecting the bounty. They’d have to be acting for purely patriotic/ideological reasons and accept their life is forfeit.

It’s a Hitler situation, he’s almost untouchable by a lone assassin.

When he does go, it’ll be like Stalin with a mass uprising. Dragged through the streets.
Er, Stalin died from complications from a stroke, there was no mass uprising. ..he died of a condition prevalent in old age .
 










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The international criminal court appears to have a budget of over 150 million Euros pa and has convicted 10 people in over 50 years.

Maybe I've got this wrong.
 






Sirnormangall

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At this point the arrest warrant is largely symbolic. But it formally reinforces that he is an international pariah and that will help to increasingly isolate him and make him an outcast. In practice, it might make it more awkward for some countries to continue to sit on the fence over Ukraine.
So I think it will make life a bit more uncomfortable for Putin ( good) but I doubt he will care too much and he’ll retrench and sadly survive for sometime yet: I think it will take a terminal illness to solve the problem and we just have to hope it happens soon.
 




GT49er

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At this point the arrest warrant is largely symbolic. But it formally reinforces that he is an international pariah and that will help to increasingly isolate him and make him an outcast. In practice, it might make it more awkward for some countries to continue to sit on the fence over Ukraine.
So I think it will make life a bit more uncomfortable for Putin ( good) but I doubt he will care too much and he’ll retrench and sadly survive for sometime yet: I think it will take a terminal illness to solve the problem and we just have to hope it happens soon.
Yes, at the moment it is but a pin-prick - but nonetheless a positive one. These things mount up - slowly to be sure, and probably he'll die of old age first. It's still laying down a marker.
Hopefully, of course, he'll just die soon.
 




A1X

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