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Russian court orders arrest of Yulia Navalnaya
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Because that worked so well with Saddam, Gaddafi and so many others. Putin may be evil but you have no idea what could happen if you create a power vacuum nor who might step in to fill it.
Supposedly though Putin has cancer so here's hoping nature gets rid of him.
What's the worst thing that can happen? Russia is already a shithole where vast majority of honest and hardworking population lives like shit - they will continue to live like shit. The only ones that will get hurt from the inevitable infighting that starts are the oligarchs. Fuck 'em.
I feel like this would allow next tsar of russia to claim this was putin`s war, give back Ukrainian territory, maybe even promise some reparations they have no intentions to deliver, and continue leeching off natural resources.
Either way, immediate problem of these cunts killing Ukrainian children by bombing hospitals is solved.
The worst is significantly worse than that. Look at history. Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan, for starters.
And they have nuclear weapons.
Are you seriously comparing tiny, colonial countries to russia? There's nowhere we can really look in history.
Judging by the state of the rest of russia's military, I'm not worrying too much about nukes when the rest of world has modern and tested defense systems.
There are far, far more nukes in the world than defense systems for nuclear missiles. If one person "presses the button", everyone else will, and maybe 1% of all nuclear missiles will be caught.
When russia inevitably starts collapsing from the inside and fracturing into smaller city states (or whatever local tsars decide to call their occupied territories) I'm sure that America and the rest of the advanced militaries will have boots on the ground immediately to secure the nukes.
Either way, not worried.
It actually can be a lot worse ...
In what way?
It worked well with Stalin (though admitedly he died from a heart attack, so nobody to blame, but still his death made USSR a bit better almost immediately)
you are right, there are way crazier people in the Kremlin than Putin. He's evil no question, but he still seems to be rational enough to realize a nuclear war (e.g. as retaliation for Western help for Ukraine) would mean he lost. We should hope that the cancer isn't in his brain or some other cause makes him cross into irrationality.
It would have to be an extensive and extended operation, and it doesn't seem like there's anyone around who wouldn't fuck it up on purpose who has any appetite for such an undertaking