nortex97 said:
Interesting this happened today. Coincidence?
Today is not…as bad as it seemed this am. That is good because for a bit it seemed this horrible clown might get nuclear weapons.
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But one thing you've got to admit is that the timing of this putsch is extremely favorable towards the above theory. At exactly the point of the AFU's weakest moment and near-collapse on the battlefield he chose to strike Russia in the back as if obviously driven by a hidden hand; it appears to make sense. He may have relied on other oligarchs and hidden sympathizers in the Kremlin to have risen up against Putin at a key moment during the struggles, but they may have gotten cold feet and the plan turned sour.
By the way, there were several reports from sources connected to the IRGC of Iran, that during the peak of the crisis, Iran was willing to send Shiite forces or revolutionary guards to Moscow.
So…back to regularly scheduled programming? What, exactly, has actually changed today?
Imagine the U.S. hired a mercenary privatized mercenary force filled with people released from the U.S. prison system to patrol the U.S. Mexico border.
And at some point the leader of that mercenary force said 'The Pentagon is trying to kill me and my guys! We are going to Washington D.C to get those *******s!' And starts driving up the interstates in some big convoys.
And imagine the POTUS does a press conference and says the mercenaries are traitors and terrorists and the FBI issues arrest warrant for the leader etc. And imagine Washington D.C. goes on martial law alert and starts setting up machine gun nests right outside the city in the path of the mercenaries just in case it comes down to that.
Now imagine U.S. military does engage the mercenaries in like Tennessee and some helicopters and planes are shot down, some folks on both sides killed. The governor of Tennessee has told all citizens to stay inside.
Now…it is looking grim…but…the Canada President! He saves the day while nobody knows where POTUS is and rumors are flying that he fled D.C. But the Canada President, he negotiates a deal with the mercenary leader. Who supposedly gets to go into exile in Canada with no repercussions, all criminal charges dropped, while all those mercenaries (and ex-prison convicts) will be folded into regular U.S. Military units because you still desperately need soldiers to patrol that Mexican border.
And yeah, everything is just back the way it was 24 hours earlier. The POTUS doesn't look any weaker position because a labeled 'terrorist' was allowed to kill some people and drive halfway to D.C. until the Canadian president was sent in to broker a 'deal'.
Let's see how the next week plays out politically over there…but this entire thing was bizarre and nothing like this had ever happened to Putin before.