Thursday, December 05, 2024

Putin's Overseas Empire is Collapsing All at Once

Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth: It has been another bad week for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 06:32 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama today, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) December 5, 2024 at 11:47 AM

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Putin is counting on his portly orange bitch to help him regain his footing.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-05 09:09 AM

Happy to see Russia fail, but this is gonna be such a mess.

No good guys here, but at least Assad is secular-ish. No telling what the rebels, who are mostly (but not all) Islamist religious nutters, will unleash.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-12-05 09:31 AM

Syrian rebels capture key city of Hama in fresh blow to Assad

www.reuters.com

That sumbitch is a savvy genius.

~ Fatty Bone Spurs~

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-05 09:37 AM

When Putin fails, Donald fails; when Donald fails, Putin fails.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-05 10:16 AM

Putin? I thought he already died of blood cancer two years ago.

#5 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-12-05 12:12 PM

Putin's empire is gonna see a re-emergence.

As soon as Trump regains the White House.

Russia will become the strongest nation in the world.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 12:26 PM

Let's pretend Harris won the election......

Now....ask yourself this....do we want Russian to disintegrate into pieces?

or "collapse" as it was said?

Is that perhaps a worse scenario for all of Europe and Asia and of course the US?

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2024-12-05 12:29 PM

Russia wouldn't collapse.

Putin would have been replaced.

But, why bother with such "What if ... " scenarios when Trump won and will help Putin rebuild the USSR.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-05 12:34 PM

Re 8

Yeah.

I will believe that when I see it.

And I didn't even believe the Berlin Wall had come down until I was over there helping break it up. I still have my little piece of that wall.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-06 01:55 PM

Now....ask yourself this....do we want Russian to disintegrate into pieces?

Sounds like a trick question.

Here is my answer:

---- Russia ... and the Tank they rode in on.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-06 02:01 PM

---- Russia ...

In Russia, Russia ---- You!

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-06 02:12 PM

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