I would have assumed that would be the most difficult part of toppling Putin, yes. However....the tech elite that prop up his power in the big cities are fickle. Source: essay collection "Putin's Russia: How It Rose, How It Is Maintained, and How It Might End" Dimitriev, Gontmakher, Gudkov, et al. Pub. American Enterprise Institute, 2015.
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RandomStickman@kbin.run · 47 pts · 2y
Ukraine will finish what Prigozhin couldn't.
A statement that can't be fathomed in 2022
Assman@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 2y
I mean I'm surprised it took this long. We learned a year ago you can just walk the fuck up to Moscow with zero repercussions.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
They marched up there with no resistance, but they shortly thereafter blew the guys plane out of the air. That's a pretty big repercussion.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
But the impression that Prigo left in the land cannot be erased.
Assman@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Allegedly
Agent641@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
The plane just did that
nuke@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
I heard it was a sick ostrich
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
I would have assumed that would be the most difficult part of toppling Putin, yes. However....the tech elite that prop up his power in the big cities are fickle. Source: essay collection "Putin's Russia: How It Rose, How It Is Maintained, and How It Might End" Dimitriev, Gontmakher, Gudkov, et al. Pub. American Enterprise Institute, 2015.
10/10 read. More NCD than it sounds.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y
Idk that I'd really want to be seen as the successor to that chain of events, given it was Nazis the last two times.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y
That is a pretty view. It'd be even prettier lined with billboards for Ukrainian soup shops and ushanka t-shirts. EDIT: DA SPELLING