Re: Ukraine
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:26 am
Or perhaps he was expecting to gather more support from army defections along the way and realised as he neared Moscow that he didn't have anywhere near enough support to overthrow the government.
I expect he'll be dead within the year. That was an attempt at an armed insurrection. They shot down planes and helicopters on the way to Moscow. That would see you thrown in jail for the rest of your life in western democracies and Putin has had people killed for far less. He's absolutely humiliated the regime, if Putin lets him live then that's just a sign to other hopeful warlords in future that they can have a pop at the leadership and if enough don't turn out in support for them then they can just retire in exile without any consequences.
He must know he's a dead man now. I wish he'd just gone all in on it and fought to the end, a siege in Moscow would have forced withdrawals from Ukraine to secure the city. As long as they controlled Rostov on Don they would have supremely buggered logistics up for getting supplies to the front lines too and Ukraine would have had a much easier time with the counter offensive.
There's some pretty wild conspiracy theories online about how this was all part of Putin's grand plan. Absolute rubbish. He might have held on for now, but Putin's position has been weakened a lot by this rebellion.
I expect he'll be dead within the year. That was an attempt at an armed insurrection. They shot down planes and helicopters on the way to Moscow. That would see you thrown in jail for the rest of your life in western democracies and Putin has had people killed for far less. He's absolutely humiliated the regime, if Putin lets him live then that's just a sign to other hopeful warlords in future that they can have a pop at the leadership and if enough don't turn out in support for them then they can just retire in exile without any consequences.
He must know he's a dead man now. I wish he'd just gone all in on it and fought to the end, a siege in Moscow would have forced withdrawals from Ukraine to secure the city. As long as they controlled Rostov on Don they would have supremely buggered logistics up for getting supplies to the front lines too and Ukraine would have had a much easier time with the counter offensive.
There's some pretty wild conspiracy theories online about how this was all part of Putin's grand plan. Absolute rubbish. He might have held on for now, but Putin's position has been weakened a lot by this rebellion.
