We have long known that Putin is a brutal dictator. Anyone who dares to oppose him mysteriously dies or disappears. His chief critic Alexei Navalny is currently “lost” in the Russian prison system; not even his lawyers know where he is.
Remember when the leader of the Wagner group staged a brief rebellion? Putin made peace with him and guaranteed his personal safety. Not long after, his plane crashed. Now we know why.
The Wall Street Journal reported today:
In the tarmac of a Moscow airport in late August, Yevgeny Prigozhin waited on his Embraer Legacy 600 for a safety check to finish before it could take off. The mercenary army chief was headed home to St. Petersburg with nine others onboard. Through the delay, no one inside the cabin noticed the small explosive device slipped under the wing.
When the jet finally left, it climbed for about 30 minutes to 28,000 feet, before the wing blew apart, sending the aircraft spiraling to the ground. All 10 people were killed, including Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.
The assassination of the warlord was two months in the making and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally and confidant, an ex-spy named Nikolai Patrushev, according to Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer. The role of Patrushev as the driver of the plan to kill Prigozhin hasn’t been previously reported.
The Kremlin has denied involvement in Prigozhin’s death, and Putin offered the closest thing to an official explanation for the plane’s fiery crash, suggesting a hand grenade had detonated onboard.
None of that was true.
Hours after the incident, a European involved in intelligence gathering who maintained a backchannel of communication with the Kremlin and saw news of the crash asked an official there what had happened.
“He had to be removed,” the Kremlin official responded without hesitation.
The dirty deed was done by Putin’s right-hand man.
And this is the man that wants to take control of Ukraine: a bloody, power-mad dictator who kills people the way others throw out trash.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
And Putin’s dog, Trump, is leading in the polls for President.
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Sounds as like you are trying to distract people from thinking about Hunter’s laptop.
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Oh, yes. Hunter’s laptop. THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THE 21ST CENTURY!
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He is having sex with minors, his niece, has other important info regarding business , if it was trumps kids you would care. I guess its your buddy biden so you are ok with this. 51 intelligent agencies lied over, election interference, one of many/
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Intelligent Agencies. That would be a nice change of pace.
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On Twitter the other day, I saw a picture of Hunter swimming in the nude. I assume this important information was on his laptop. Before Elon took over, pictures like this were not on Twitter. I refuse to call it X.
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“And this is the man that wants to take control of Ukraine: a bloody, power-mad dictator who kills people the way others throw out trash.”
Yea, but he’s halfway around the world and Ukraine is a tiny country in the middle of nowhere. We’ve got more important things to do here at home, like correcting all the errors in the Constitution, and making sure only qualified, true patriots can vote.
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We have important things to do halfway around the world in Ukraine, where we must stop the imperial ambitions of indicted international war criminal Tsar Vladimir the Defenestrater to protect NATO, liberate the Ukrainian people, stop the illegal ongoing onslaught upon the civilian population and Ukraine’s cultural monuments as a matter of simple decency, and uphold the fundamental principle on which international law is based–the territorial inviolability of sovereign UN members states.
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cx: member states
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making sure only qualified, true patriots can vote
Oh, and who decides this. Mark?
Insane
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I’m waiting for Vladimir to give Donald the OK to appoint me head patriot decider for my seven county region.
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Hey, when this happens, Mark, remember your old pals!
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Mark was being sarcastic.
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ah
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Is Putin even alive? Or is a body double doing appearances while a bunch of his siloviki run things and eliminate the most extreme of the Putin loyalists?
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Putin might very well be barely clinging to life while one or more body doubles does public appearances and his old guard siloviki run things. This is not without precedent. In our own country, Ronald Reagan, during his second term, had advanced dementia. He was able to read from teleprompters (sort of), but the country was run by his advisers.
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And another is edging toward an election victory…
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yup
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Putin wants a lot more than Ukraine. His goal is to build an empire more powerful than any other country on the planet. One he controls even if some are vassal states with puppet governments.
Manipulating democratic elections to ensure leaders get elected that will do Putin’s bidding.
Venezuela
Cuba
Maybe Argentina
A few countries in Africa
I’m sure there are more.
No country is safe.
For decades he’s been working to destroy the United States economically.
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Exactly. He was quite clear about his intent to build the “Greater Russia” in his monstrous imperialist fantasy, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”
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lloyd what have you been right about? Everything you say is wrong. USA took over brazil and ruined venezuela, NATO needs to go.
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NATO has ensured peace in Europe since its foundation. Only a Russian flunky or an utter idiot would not see this.
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Ukraine what is going on since Israel was attacked? We going to give billions. ore to the corrupt pathetic country. Us hates leaders like putin whom they cannot control or take over, or change regimes like obama and biden did in 2014 ukraine. Lets keep taking trump off ballot, so scared of him . Thought he was going to jail, 14th ammendment wont work lol!!!!
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The trolls got loose!
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