• cybernetsoc [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Shit, you know what this means? Pro-US Oligarchs are going to coup Putin and cut a deal with the West. Just giving Zelensky a win through no virtue of his own. The future has been foretold.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Pro-US Oligarchs are going to coup Putin

        The sanctions make that increasingly unlikely. Jack Ma would have a better chance of couping Xi Jinping, atm. Putin's allies aren't the ones heavily exposed to western markets. And he's been judiciously pruning out CIA plants for as long as he's been in office.

        If Zelensky "wins", it'll be through the Juan Guaido route of Americans announcing a Ukrainian Government in Exile and handing him $2B/year to wear a "REAL President of Ukraine" hat at the next Model UN summit. Big media victory for all the western ditto-heads, and then we just write off that corner of Europe as not existing.