Minithread, elicited by the *possible* (no verification yet, and #Trump is full of endless shit) dumping of #Russia by #MAGA (if you missed it, there are rumors Trump told #Europe he is continuing support to #Ukraine):
This is the beginning of the end of Russia as we know it, and the beginning of the end for #Putin
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So let's recap:
In February 2022, #VDV forces landed at #Hostomel airport to pave the way for #Russia's quick decapitation of #Kyiv.
Apparently some of the #Russian #Paratroopers made restaurant reservations in Kyiv (as their joke), such was their certainty.
And, nobody thought #Russia would be this stupid, but if they did it, the world also thought #Ukraine would rapidly crumble.
How could they not? Russia was a major power and Ukraine was poor and puny.
Instead the world got a remarkable demonstration of a people grimly united in dread purpose: not only the preservation of their country, but their lives, such is #Russia's #genocidal #mafia ways.
They rose to the occasion in virtually cinematic terms.
#Zelensky, a #television #comedian, became a #heroic #statesman. The #Ukrainian people used their grit, resolve, and spirit to jerry rig a #resistance that made "mighty" Russia look like a joke. The "great statesman" #Putin became the comedian.
Fast forward to today:
#Georgia is boiling over with #protest and stubborn #political #resistance to the #corruption of their country by #Russia.
Another #Euromaidan brewing, Mr. #Putin?
And no one, least of all #Russia, escapes realizing the ramifications of one of their most important, longest, and vital #clientstates: #Syria, slipping away, as a distracted Russia could do nothing as #Rebels backed by #Turkey swept the country and #Assad crumbled. The #cruel #regime is over, the #Syrian people now with the potential for #hope in their long devastated land.
The #Russian #economy is in trouble. The #Ruble drops, #interestrates are sky high, #inflation: you can't kill or maim hundreds of thousands of your men on folly while directing a huge part of your economy to #shells and #tanks and put that on the national credit card, without serious long term ramifications.
Even if you take all of #Ukraine tomorrow. You're looking at years or even decades of pain.
Oh dear, dear Mr. #Putin. During #COVID, when it is said you sat in dusty #Russian #historical #map rooms, sniffing your own farts, high on your own #ego, dreaming of being the next #PeterTheGreat or #IvanTheTerrible, and you thought: "sure, let's go for #Ukraine"...
Did you imagine it would go this bad, botox ghoul?
What will it be Mr. #Putin?
The #Oligarchs getting together and offing you since they realize the obvious you see as well?
Or will #GorkyPark become the next #Maidan Square?
/end
Oh yeah, you can go away now too:
@benroyce Well done.
@benroyce he was hounded into a sewer pipe and Hussein caught in a hole in the ground. These monsters end their lives as cornered rats. Putin?
@benroyce as you said, the orange buffoon is just about the most untrustworthy around. Wouldn't lend him a €5 bill as it would have to be written off as an involuntary donation
@stuartl @benroyce I would like to phrase a differently:
If he sticks to his previous resolution of giving the Ukraine to his ghoulfriend, we will not be surprised and everything will be more fked.
If he doesn't, everything gets some respite from being fked more and we will breathe a sigh of relief, but remain on our guard because of the capriciousness of the orange idiot
@benroyce man... I hope this is true... but who knows.
I think the Trump team has a history of leaking a bunch of different positions to see how people react.
@benroyce - I hope this is true, but i find it difficult to trust anything Donald Trump says that I agree with. Inevitably if he says something I agree with, he ends up doing the opposite.
zero argument, i don't trust him either
trump is a moron who doesn't think about anything he says. and in the next sentence will say the opposite
it's still remarkable he's saying this, but, yeah, i don't hold any value to it. we'll see
Here's the conundrum, ol' pal: "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!"
Trump lies constantly, to everyone. Keeps 'em on their back feet. Is he telling the truth now?
The odds of Trump telling the truth are practically nil. Don the Con is back in the saddle again.
zero argument
and well said
but in the fractal dance of the arrangement of bits of partially digested food in a pool of vomit that is #trump's endlessly self-contradictory lies in his festering demented brain, it's a new territory
possibly covering for and saving face from the machinations going on behind him by other parts of the us govt he's learning will not budge on the question of helping #ukraine
Kaiju Alert - the moment Trump turns on Elmo is coming soon. Fill your drinks cabinet now !
@tuban_muzuru @benroyce Call me a pessimist, but I don't think trump will turn on E.Morlock, ever. He's old, senile, and declining rapidly. I don't think he knows what's going on around him, other than what his closest circle is feeding him. That's what typically happens in a monarchy: the Court manages the King, trading access to the sovereign for favors, and backstabbing each other constantly.
I'd keep an eye on Thiel's boy. He'll be one bad bite of burger away from the throne. Scary times.
@Legit_Spaghetti @tuban_muzuru
yup
as the #usa imports #russian style #oligarchy, i'm just waiting for these #american ghouls to also import russian style #assassination
they'll kill #trump if they get too frustrated with him and don't get what they want, so that their little waterboy #vance does what they ask
@benroyce @Legit_Spaghetti @tuban_muzuru People are going to start falling out of windows in the US
@Lydie @benroyce @tuban_muzuru Y'know, it'd be nice if they put more of a typically American spin on it; defenestration is so neo-Russian.
Oooh, maybe instead of yeeting people out of windows, it could be like "he appears to have died from an accidental discharge while cleaning his weapon, five times from the back." Or "the deceased apparently lost control of his Cybertruck, which then sealed its occupants inside as the vehicle burned."
@Legit_Spaghetti @Lydie @tuban_muzuru
my personal fear is that stochastic terrorism, now that so many nutcases in america are running around with guns, can be more controlled selective and specific. or at least used as a cover story: "just another crazy thing that happened"
@Legit_Spaghetti @Lydie @benroyce @tuban_muzuru There was a guy who "killed himself" by staple gun.
edit: or was it a nail gun... something improbable...
@Legit_Spaghetti
There was already a thing with Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law, who drowned in a Tesla.
@Lydie @benroyce @tuban_muzuru
@Lydie @benroyce @Legit_Spaghetti @tuban_muzuru
But MAGA will throw their enemies out ground floor windows.
@Lydie @benroyce@mastodon.social @Legit_Spaghetti @tuban_muzuru
With all the guns we have lying around?
@benroyce I fear we won’t have long to wait for any of it.
@benroyce Agreed. Just keepin’ it real.
@benroyce [chuckle] You’re absolutely right. Sworn off the news as much as possible. Been busying myself with Christmas gift prep and TV. Cards today. Even Mastodon is a little too politics heavy for me. Small doses seem to work.
NETFLIX TO THE RESCUE!! And knitting.
@benroyce @clayrivers Working on it. See: #RipleyAndJonesy
@benroyce @clayrivers The Lady Catherine sleeping on my sequined blouse. That can't be comfy.
Hannah Arendt is my guide to these things, Masha Gessen is another wise person, much acquainted with dictators and suchlike
Me, Guatemala and Nigeria.,