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Buggsilla · 2022-10-12T13:23:12+00:00

Hearing about him cutting power to that nuclear power plant has set me off. This is SO dangerous. I've had it, the man's a terrorist. Do you think behind the scenes special forces are trying to get close to put a hit on him?

ParsleyTL · 13/10/2022 16:52

The British security services don’t actually assassinate people, OP. They have no legal powers to do so.

The military can, but we call that war.

LindyLou2020 · 13/10/2022 17:45

@fromdownwest
Good points, thank you. I've only really been looking at this from the point of view that Putin just wants power, and to recreate the Soviet Union.
I hadn't taken into account what the Russian people are being told. Because some are protesting/fleeing, it's easy to assume that they are against the invasion, but many, many more may well not be.
But in terms of one man having such power, Putin to me seems like Hitler all over again, albeit with vastly different aims and ideologies.
It's like - it's 2022 and we seem to have learned nothing from the past

Trilla · 13/10/2022 17:52

LindyLou2020 · 13/10/2022 17:45

@fromdownwest
Good points, thank you. I've only really been looking at this from the point of view that Putin just wants power, and to recreate the Soviet Union.
I hadn't taken into account what the Russian people are being told. Because some are protesting/fleeing, it's easy to assume that they are against the invasion, but many, many more may well not be.
But in terms of one man having such power, Putin to me seems like Hitler all over again, albeit with vastly different aims and ideologies.
It's like - it's 2022 and we seem to have learned nothing from the past

It's worth checking out the 1420 youtube channel, it's a young very brave Russian man doing street interviews in Russia asking about the news, propaganda, the war, its interesting seeing the split between the younger and older generation and location splits (Moscow vs rural) for the different thoughts

LindyLou2020 · 13/10/2022 18:10

@Trilla
I will - thank you!

DomesticShortHair · 13/10/2022 21:19

LindyLou2020 · 13/10/2022 15:05

This is possibly going to sound quite naive, and I'd be grateful not to be patronised or ridiculed.
I like to think I'm an intelligent, well-educated grown-up, and I keep up with current affairs, but I just cannot comprehend how ONE MAN is able to cause such chaos and suffering. Not just against the Ukrainian people, but also his own people, particularly sending untrained, ill-equipped Russian men to fight x a war some want no part of.
And that's before you get to the damage he has done to the rest of the world, in particular the catastrophic rise in the cost of energy, fuel, and groceries as a result of his actions. The consequences are far-reaching, as we are fast discovering.
I realise he's got his gang of henchmen around him, but I still find it incredible that one man appears/is allowed to have so much power.
Why is that? I really would like to know.

I know what you mean, it’s far beyond my understanding how it can happen, and how somebody could be like that.

But from Stalin, to Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim-Il-sung, Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot, Salam Hussein etc., etc., it happens again and again. So much as I agree it’s unfathomable and unconscionable , it’s sadly also unsurprising.

Hawkins001 · 17/10/2022 01:19

John wick

newfence · 22/10/2022 21:32

I don't have my glasses on (but i'll get them) - I'm really interested in this thread!