Posted on 06/02/2023 1:32:20 PM PDT by McGruff
News of a recent alleged assassination attempt on Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, raises the question: what kind of Russia might emerge after him? It is tempting to believe that, if Putin were killed, or otherwise removed from power, for example in a palace coup, Russia would shake off its dictatorial shackles, normalize its relations with the West, and advance down the democratic road. Such thinking is mistaken. History suggests there are slim prospects of Russia doing so.
The surest guarantee that Russia will not reform along democratic lines is the power of its security and intelligence services. At key junctures in Soviet and post-Soviet history, amid coups, near-coups, reforms, and revolutions, the KGB and its successors have always acted as kingmaker. Their power has remained consistent as Kremlin leaders came and went. There is little reason to believe they will not do so again.
Russia is effectively a security service with a state attached. Its intelligence services—the FSB, SVR, and GRU—wield vast influence.
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<>the KGB and its successors have always acted as kingmaker.<>
The CIA learned well.
bkmk
Maybe Putin plans for Obama to be his successor. Obama will have more flexibility after Putin’s death.
“What comes after Biden’s rule in the U S.?”
What are we worried about? They're just like us.
The US is effectively a security service with a state attached.
See how easy that is. /spit
Hummm... The deep state hates Putin almost as much as they hate Trump. Kinda makes you wonder why?
Putin seems Reasonable swimming in this sea of corruption and insanity.
The US is effectively a security service with a state attached.
An obvious point completely missed by the MSM author.
Let it happen and we’ll see who emerges as the new leader
I’m pretty sure Prigozhin wants the job
DC bubble apparatchiks and their media area already planning the victory party
Good luck with that.
It’s because they want to protect children from the alphabet nazis.
Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch, mercenary chief, and a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin is sometimes called “Putin's chef”, due to owning restaurants and catering companies that provide services for the Kremlin.
He's lucky he's still consuming oxygen.
I have no misconceptions about Putin. He is an entirely corrupt man, but Russia is a nation reliant on corrupt leadership or government systems throughout its history.
He is an anti-globalist much like Trump and both are viewed with a burning white hot hatred from elites everywhere. He was also the victim, just as Trump was, of the Clinton machine and the American left who concocted a ridiculous conspiracy that Putin somehow changed the US election when it was our own intel community, media, and bureaucracy that birthed and nurtured a lie. Pulitzer level stuff.....
The sad fact is that the Clinton’s made the world a far more dangerous place in an effort to cover for her own crimes and weaken her hated rival. America had many common interests with Putin such as China, the war on terror, and even Israeli peace agreements to stabilize the Middle East and curtail Iranian interests but those bridges were effectively burned by Clinton to hide her own failures.
What could have been? A safer and more stable world with less globalism and risks of nuclear war. What exists now? A new Cold War with the other nuclear superpower, a more dangerous China, and less prosperity for regular people.
Trade with Russia could have led to stability and an improved standard of living in Europe and Russia for the average person, but the globalists would not hear of it so they kept pushing NATO east and interfering in places outside of our direct interests. A half a million dead (and counting) in the Ukraine and Russia would agree with me if they were still breathing.
DC and London think they can repeat the 90s where they basically had full control over them financially. They want Russia to be an administrative zone or vassal of the globalist WEF umbrella.
That is what this thing is all about. They fantasize about putting their own controlled Russian in power. Some Ivy League type.
Ask the kingmaker, the CIA.
Old German saying, “Russia Remains Russia”.
Russians like being slaves
Muskovy is no more capable of democratic government than Afghanistan or China. The people have never had it, they have no clue how to handle it if they do get it offered to them.
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