But guys like make deals with satan and tend to live 100 years.
;>)
I was just thinking his face looked bloated. The side effect from some meds perhaps.
Pancreatic or Brain cancer, that would be terrible.
For years the guy looked (at least in his pr vids and photos) like a superhero.
Not so much anymore...
No independent confirmation of this.
Safest to treat it as propaganda.
Another junk thread...just like yesterday.
Putin’s ~70 years old. Most people that age have some serious medical condition.
You are looking at a political dead man walking. You are allowed only one catastrophically bad decision that badly hurts your country, destroys the morale of the armed forces, loses the support of the people and causes the political establishment to seek alternatives.
You are looking at a political dead man walking. You are allowed only one catastrophically bad decision that badly hurts your country, destroys the morale of the armed forces, loses the support of the people and causes the political establishment to seek alternatives.
If he dies, oh well...
The odd thing about this current situation is how armature hour Putin's conduct has been. If he has been told he is terminal it would explain why he decided to go all in here. He might be thinking he is not getting many more chances
Comes an age where one realizes it’s now-or-never for life goals. Vlad has held Russia together for a couple decades, but now he realizes it’s his last chance to restore Old Russia (Russia + Belarus + Ukraine) and make a big mark on history. This is apparent in his manifesto, posted & pulled on Feb 25 (see thread https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4042394/posts).
Small wonder his chief of spies looked absolutely terrified when answering a question in a way he knew Putin didn’t want to hear.
Pundit Scott Adams, who would know, observed Putin is clearly on (hard?) drugs.
Combine age, disease, drugs, nuclear weapons, and world-class narcissism ... be concerned.
Probably just a little Novichock Nerve Agent injected via the end of an umbrella, when someone bumped Vlad on the street. All by accident, of course! ;)
Nothing spy-novel about it. Just a little tit for tat.
Alexei Navalny? Please pick up the White Courtesy Phone in the Lobby. Oh, wait! You can’t! You didn’t die as planned, so Vlad threw you in prison!
Seems to me that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had cancer for 20 years.
I take this as seriously as Trump not being fit for office memes. Media has lost the plot
We’re there any reports of this prior to this Russian attack on Ukraine?
Geez. Every tabloid trash paper is getting an airing.
Putin is a thuggish type. But he is a healthier thug than the current imbecilic thug in the Whitehouse.
More propaganda
With the plethora of news out there, I haven’t time to read endless speculation. Just the facts maam.