The onion rots...

...from the outside in.

As the layers peel off of Putin's "grand plan".
It appears that his failures and empty promises are ruffling the scales of a powerful block of covert Kremlin snakes.

Change is in the offing friends. It's not going to be pretty.

Not-so-hidden Putin acolytes like Metal Brain have nothing to fear: Plausible denials are now being constructed within and without several Russian sub-communities.

No worries.
😁

Putin's replacement could be worse. It's happened before.

@booger said
Putin's replacement could be worse. It's happened before.

They might be in the short term, the head of the Wagner group is one candidate, but the long term will see a resurgence of democracy and accountability in Russia. You can fool some of the people some of the time but………..
The worse Putin fails in his Peter the Great channeling imperial adventure the better it will be for the Russian people in particular and in general Europe and the rest of the world.

joe Biden's brain has been rotting from the inside out for over 15 years.
Just look at him today versus videos of him before 2005.
Not the same man.
Not that he was that great before senility set in.

@kevcvs57 said
They might be in the short term, the head of the Wagner group is one candidate, but the long term will see a resurgence of democracy and accountability in Russia. You can fool some of the people some of the time but………..
The worse Putin fails in his Peter the Great channeling imperial adventure the better it will be for the Russian people in particular and in general Europe and the rest of the world.

A pleasant fantasy. What comes after him might be no more tractable to reason or international law than the current occupant.

Good riddance to Putin. He's a nuclear terrorist that needs to go

@earl-of-trumps said
Good riddance to Putin. He's a nuclear terrorist that needs to go

It does not appear that Putin has any plan for his own successor. let’s hope that what comes after him is not civil war. That could lead to loose nukes.

@moonbus said
It does not appear that Putin has any plan for his own successor. let’s hope that what comes after him is not civil war. That could lead to loose nukes.

Loose control of WMD's are always a possibility when a major world power suffers a civil calamity.

It's a gamble; a risky one.
But nature abhors a vacuum and post-Putin Russia will present the world with risk and opportunity.
Though perhaps a tad too optimistically, I see an outcome more like 1991 than 1917.

Sans nukes, of course.