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Are we fiddling while Rome burns?

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I have received an acknowledgement of my donation from DEC which l take to mean that the money is in their coffers.
    Stories on the BBC website this morning about people living in Ukraine whose relatives in Russia don't believe what they are telling them. Propaganda is a powerful weapon in itself. 
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Read about a dissident Oligarch who's put a price on Putin's head, dead or alive. The oligarch is stumping up 1 million euros for anyone to take him out. Others could be adding to the bounty.

    We'll never get to know what is exactly happening, but I know I'll sleep a lot sounder at night with that mad man dressed in his shroud. 
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I suspect the hit man will want his cheque made payable to his widow ... 

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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    The trouble with that route is that you would be following exactly the same lines as many dictatorships do----------don't agree ?  Knock the person off or at least ensure they are unable to speak out.

    It's an understandable reaction as exhibited by the many similar calls made to a recent radio Phone in,  The presenter eventually stated he wasn't airing any more calls of that nature.

    Without doubt Putin needs to stopped and diplomatic efforts don't appear to be working.  But assassination ?  I certainly don't have an answer but it would seem to me that change needs to come from within Russia itself and that will take some time.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Only Russia can change its leader - but how, if you're living in a sealed box, do you see from outside in to make that change? We tend to forget that Trump had/has  millions believing the election was stolen. How do I know that my view of the world is then truer than anyone else's?
    That is the problem with lies and bending of truth - hence why Boris - after all this other stuff, can't be allowed to get away with lying - even what seems like such a small set of lies. Even during the partygate fiasco, his colleagues were talking about Boris' integrity.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    And, as we all kept saying back in the 70/80s, a deterrent is only of any use while the other side believes we’re prepared to use it …  :/

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  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    And, as we all kept saying back in the 70/80s, a deterrent is only of any use while the other side believes we’re prepared to use it …  :/
    Well Putin is certainly pushing that envelope.... 
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  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945

    Without doubt Putin needs to stopped and diplomatic efforts don't appear to be working.  But assassination ?  I certainly don't have an answer but it would seem to me that change needs to come from within Russia itself and that will take some time.
    Removing Saddam and Gadaffi only made 'things' worse.
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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I doubt whether things would change much with Putin gone unless what got rid of him was a significant shift in the population's views. I watched an old BBC documentary about him (think it was made in 2018) the other day. Very interesting if not at all comforting
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  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    What Russia needs is a revolution so that the workers own the means of production that might work.
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