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I don't think he is mad, he is clearly highly intelligent....but he is I genuinely believe a psychopath.

I never suggested taking him out would be easy did I? But I still think he either steps down or is taken out eventually.

putin might go big or go home and used the Tzar Bomba on Kyiv

So, where is Putin? Is he at his palace near the black sea or some bunker under Moscow?

Apropos of the bogus "biological weapons", the US Govt says it suspects the Russians could launch such an attack themselves and try and blame it on the Ukrainians.

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1501676240180322311

I'd say he is rattling about in his tacky palace pining for his ex gymnast girlfriend (and the 4 kids) who are hiding out in Switzerland.

In the Kremlin

I see 3M are latest to suspend business in Russia.

Others who did similar today, Nestle as well as tobacco brands Philip Morris and Imperial Brands

interesting suggestion, like when a colony of army ants are on the move and the queen is always covered and protected, the colony can even float like a vessel until they reach solid ground

I would seriously expect that his whereabouts are known to various intelligence agencies and I also expect that the only chance Russia has of regaining acceptance into the civilised world is for putin to be either killed or locked up.

Fantastic.

"People" might have said he wouldn't do it...but most of the intelligence said he would. The US indicated it would happen pretty well before it did.

He might have thought he could roll over into Europe...but either way Ukraine have stopped that for now imo...be clearly didn't expect the resistance and the fact other countries would rally when it came to supplies military and otherwise

@wylo

"I'll invade an entire country - a large European country at that, right on the edge of the EU, with aspirations to join the EU and NATO.... and that'll be... kind of fine?" - Vova

I have a hard time believing he thought in a million years that he could invade Ukraine without massive international blowback. If he really did think that then he is either delusional or would want to sack his advisors forthwith.

It would have to be the most spectacular military intelligence failure of the 21st century to think that going into the whole of Ukraine wouldn't be anything more than a tougher version of Crimea. All they'd have to do would be to watch Ukrainian TV and check Ukrainian twitter to get a sense that there wasn't an overwhelming pro-Russian feeling in the country. And they'd surely have people reporting from inside the country to get a feel of what the mood is on the ground. And they wouldn't have been particularly unaware that Ukraine was building its military. There's no intelligence Russia could have been gathering which would suggest that Ukraine would be 'easy'.

And what's more insane is the timing. I find that one really bizarre. The time to go into Ukraine would surely have been in 2018 or 2019 around the time Zelenskyy rose to power and cut that off for a start, and, very, very crucially, Trump was still POTUS, which would have been a better bet of a fragmented response from the West. Weird to wait until a pretty normal U.S. president was back in office, following a fairly orthodox anti-Russia line.

All we need now is for them to run out of vodka and we have them where we need them

Well it's the last place anyone would be looking for him :)

I can't see the US sending in an elite squad of killer drag queens.

Is there anyone in the Kremlin who would do the world a favour and arrange an "accident" for Putin?