Vladimir Putin has awakened many sleeping giants

[EYESORE 9001]

Beyond Ukraine. Beyond the United States and NATO and the EU. Untold numbers of factions within the so-called ‘Russian Federation’ now see the worthlessness of Russian military. I expect rebellions to resurface in Georgia, Chechnya, and elsewhere. In addition, China sees that their new ‘ally’ is powerless to thwart envious ambitions for Russian territory in the Far East.

I’m not as savvy about geopolitics as I wish I were, but I believe it stands to reason that the Russian hand has be weakened since pooty decided to fuck around with Ukraine.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Putin is the empower has no clothes.

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The world knows it now.

Sarcasm thing added: "empower"

[EYESORE 9001]

3. So do the oligarchs

When they first conspired to replace Boris Yeltsin with a malleable figurehead, they had someone like Pinochet in mind to keep his boot on the neck of the people and give the oligarchs free rein. Putin, however, had global ambitions that now threaten their ‘thing,’ and they won’t stand for that. Count the oligarchs as constituting another sleeping giant. No wonder autocrats and their admirers hate it when anyone is ‘woke.’

[SheltieLover]

2. Pootin's ineffective military is great example of what qpukes want to do to our institutions!

Privatization.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. And he's also awoke NATO with a fresh burst of energy and expansion. NATO I think is now

approximately 3 times the size of the Russian Army (at least) and now w/ the weaknesses shown all through the Russian Army over the last several months, the glaring weaknesses of Russia has been exposed for all to see. Before, the Russian Bear was seen as an invincible foe and now, the Russian Bear has been defanged and humbled, and leadership shown to be lacking.

And now he faces an even more intractable NATO facing him, one that I'm sure is closely watching the numerous mistakes and pitfalls that the Russians have gotten themselves into.

[Buckeyeblue]

5. He still has the nukes...that's what has always made him dangerous

And if he feels like his time is up, does he become even more dangerous?

[EYESORE 9001]

6. Here's hoping he gets yanked out of power before he gets the chance

I’m going out on a limb and predicting his downfall will be swift and decisive. And soon.

[Buckeyeblue]

9. I agree with you.

If we could get a Putin-free Russia producing energy at full capacity, it could really help global inflation. And if we could get a western friendly leader in Russia, it would be a positive step of getting the Russian economy back on track and benefit the Russian people.

[hunter]

13. That's some major climate change denial there.

Fossil fuels are destroying the world as we know it.

Quitting fossil fuels from Russia or anywhere else would be a good thing.

Compared to rising seas, droughts, and deadly heat waves, inflation is a trivial issue.

If we had any fucking sense at all we'd ban fossil fuels entirely. But we won't, and so the world will burn.

[Buckeyeblue]

14. I don't deny climate change but I do live in the real world

Unfortunately we are years from being able to break free of fossil fuels. Most cars run on gas. Having the price of gas be a little lower will help a lot of people.

[hunter]

16. Climate change in the "real world" is getting ugly. How bad does it have to get?

There are two things we could be doing now, with today's technology, to improve the odds of our civilization's survival.

We could be rebuilding our cities so that car ownership is unnecessary, and we could be replacing fossil fuel power plants with nuclear power plants.

Like it or not, nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely. Aggressive wind and solar schemes in places like California, Denmark, and Germany have failed and will only prolong our dependence on natural gas.

Natural gas is the most dangerous fuel in common use, largely because people think it's better than coal (it's not...) and it supports their renewable energy fantasies.

I used to be an anti-nuclear activist. I've changed my mind about that. Here's a recent post about that, and there are more in my journal:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1228&pid=80925

https://www.democraticunderground.com/~hunter

[Joinfortmill]

12. 👍

[Cha]

7. I would think So!

[EYESORE 9001]

8. Allow me to energy to the ways poot fucked up

Europe will never again purchase gas, oil, and coal in pre-sanctions quantities. Putin thought he could find alternative markets in east Asia, but it won’t match what was being sold to Europe.

[Buckeyeblue]

10. Coal, no. But gas and oil, yes. Especially if we get a western friendly Russian leader

[Joinfortmill]

11. Agree

[DavidDvorkin]

15. I keep expecting mass uprisings throughout Russian-controlled territories

But there seems to be no sign of them.

[Kaleva]

18. Saw one report that streets in Moscow are blocked off

Saw nothing else to verify that report though.

[Kaleva]

17. A new definition for clusterfuck is the RU invasion of UKR

[fierywoman]

19. And the people who had been buying weapons from Russia have seen that it's utter shit so

they would think twice about reordering ...

[Gore1FL]

20. Their "hypersonic" missile can blow up a target 30 seconds before a cheaper missile can.

So there is that.