re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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I suspect that Putin's end will be due to many Russian oligarchs finding his policy of war and aggression to be bad for business with the only return being war and blood spilled.

He could have gone for peace and prosperity instead of his throw-back Peter The Great dreams.

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Deja Vu... did you post this word-for-word pages back?

But no... Putin has done a great job picking "weak" Oligarchs. None of them can challenge him, independently, and they're all too scared to join a plot. He has an official state security apparatus, and then a secondary security apparatus in Russia's organized crime rings... so that two sets of eyes and ears on everybody and there's a window with everybody's name on it if they cause trouble. Prigozhin just served as an example should anybody get any foolish notions.

They will abandon him and side with whatever mob is eventually storming the Kremlin when the country falls apart, but they aren't going to be organizing that mob.