Difference between Russia and Venezuela? So many nukes. Too bad Ukraine got suckered into giving theirs up.
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...but how do you know which putin to kidnap?
The comment is a bit poorly thought out.
It would be picking a fight with Putin on his terms, him being former KGB. He has a tendency to order poisonings - ask Kyrylo Budanov, he narrowly escaped eating heavy metals and his wife Marianna was poisoned. Doctors saved her, but she will likely need long-term treatment.
Russia also still has satellites in the sky, moles in US agencies and spies on US soil - so Putin would have a decent chance of knowing. Trump and Vance would not want to personally die in gruesome ways or lose family members.
Russia also has a tendency to detain foreign citizens (including but not limited to spies - businessmen also have a high risk) on various excuses, eventually exchanging them for Russian citizens detained abroad if they're in favour. They know the game of kidnapping and exchanging people. They just do the kidnapping on their own soil.
If "what to do next" would be stopping to f**k with military assistance to Ukraine - to sell the tools they need, even if Biden gave tools for free - yes, I would agree, that would be logical. But Trump has demonstratively sabotaged assistance to Ukraine from day one. It's a bit far fetched to imagine he would reform himself.
I don't know if the Kremlin has leverage on Trump or Trump has delusions about the Kremlin. If they have a special relationship, it would be nice if it broke down over Venezuela, but I don't see it happening - I see Trump threatening Greenland, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba.
All that makes sense. The whole thing is a bit ironic because Putin tried to do to Zelensky what Trump did to Maduro for similar reasons. Now Zelensky is like - do this to Putin. Even though it could easily be him who gets the treatment, if Putin and Trump agree on it.
Zelenskyy refrained from directly mentioning Russia or its illegitimate leader Vladimir Putin, but the context of his remark made it clear that he was referring to him.
I know we usually see Zelenskyy being pretty grim due to the circumstances he's under, but you've got to remember he was a comedian before this
Yep. Kill a hundred thousand people, take a big shit in the middle of the country, run away, and then spend the next twenty years fighting the "terrorists" that have a problem with it. Only costs about ten thousand of America's biggest losers and the rich get richer.
That's a different operation, though. At least for now USA's behaviour is more akin to what they did in Iran than Iraq or Afghanistan.
The difference to the mayhem they caused in Iran is that here USA wouldn't need to worry about implanting a successor.
HUR will be handle that a thousand times better.
Oh my sweet summer child
Whom are you adressing, Zelensky?
This is the very moment where the clear parts of the plan end and the chaos begins
In Putin's case they don't need to. There are competent people around who will be able to handle that. Moscow isn't that far from the border of civilization.
Start a pointless war that grinds up an entire generation's worth of men just to appease a corrupt class of facist oligarchs?
What Trump just did in Venezuela not very different from what Putin wanted to do in Ukraine in 2021 when his special forces tried to take Kiev's airport.
With the possible difference that the specnaz would have been a lot less careful with Zelensky's life.
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