Article

2022-12-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

3 reasons why the CIA will not order Putin's assassination

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-18 07:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Russian mafia?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-18 08:15|| 2022-12-18 08:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Because it could start WW III, perhaps? Not that the deep state is averse to that, but they want it to happen on their terms.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-18 08:17|| 2022-12-18 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Professional courtesy ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-18 08:19|| 2022-12-18 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 'My country is being occupied by a terrorist gang' Leading Russian actress and poet Vera Polozkova brands Putin the 'main maniac of 21st century' and demands Moscow 'repents' for Ukraine war

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-18 08:39|| 2022-12-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Tit for Tat - President Harris in short order?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-18 08:51|| 2022-12-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Another Russian oligarch dies in mysterious circumstances: Tycoon, 50, suffers fatal head injury 'after falling down stairs while visiting friends in France'

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-18 08:55|| 2022-12-18 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ In a one-story house?

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-18 08:55|| 2022-12-18 08:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Because there's money to be made?

Putin is 'planning for a long war' and the West must continue to send arms to Ukraine until Russia 'cannot win on the battlefield', NATO chief says

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-18 09:07|| 2022-12-18 09:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Only 1 reason that is relevant, "we" consider Putin to be an asset. All else follows.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-12-18 09:23|| 2022-12-18 09:23|| Front Page Top

#10 U.S. Defense Contractors Sponsor D.C. Party for Ukrainian Forces Amid Ongoing War

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-18 09:35|| 2022-12-18 09:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Ref #9: Only 1 reason that is relevant, "we" consider Putin to be an asset. All else follows.

"We" may not, but our Military Industrial Complex (MIC) sees him as a business development asset.

Serious international conflicts are getting difficult to come by.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-18 09:50|| 2022-12-18 09:50|| Front Page Top

#12 I've got $100 says the CIA couldn't even kill Putin's dog if they wanted to. Just a bunch of partisan hacks looking at your social media pics.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-12-18 13:11|| 2022-12-18 13:11|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ The line of potential domestically grown Putin assassins reaches twice around the Kremlin. If he could have been terminated, it would have happened long before now.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-18 13:24|| 2022-12-18 13:24|| Front Page Top

#14 The Russian or Putin challenge is one of yes, lack of control. A short primer of the Kennedy-Bush era follows:

The CIA was backing the leaders of eleven Latin American nations -- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.Once a friendly government was in power, a CIA station chief had five paths to maintain American influence over foreign leaders. "You become their foreign intelligence service." Polgar said. "They don't know what's going on in the world. So you give them a weekly briefing--doctored to meet their sensibilities. Money, definitely--that's always welcome. Procurement--toys, games, weapons, Training. And you can always take a group of officers to Fort Bragg or Washington--a wonderful holiday.

The MO has changed little, if at all in 60+ years.

Tim Weimer, 'Legacy of Ashes' the history of the CIA, Anchor Books, Copyright 2007, page 323.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-18 13:50|| 2022-12-18 13:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Before assassinating Putin you need to assure that the replacement isn't worse. Their seems to be a deep well of Russian xenophobia that could bubble up a leader far less pragmatic.

Posted by magpie 2022-12-18 13:51|| 2022-12-18 13:51|| Front Page Top

#16
#7 ^ In a one-story house?
Posted by: Frank G 2022-12-18 08:55

"...That first one's a doozy."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-12-18 13:52|| 2022-12-18 13:52|| Front Page Top

#17 IMO most of the Oligarch 'accidents' are the various factions preparing for Life After Putin... Shaping the battlefield as it were.

Posted by magpie 2022-12-18 16:55|| 2022-12-18 16:55|| Front Page Top

#18 On the CIA assassination list Putin is probably lower priority than a few domestic targets.

Posted by Airandee 2022-12-18 21:21|| 2022-12-18 21:21|| Front Page Top

23:24 Skidmark
23:20 Skidmark
23:08 Fred
23:03 Fred
21:50 Uneng Gonque7643
21:21 Airandee
21:17 The Walking Unvaxed
21:13 The Walking Unvaxed
21:10 The Walking Unvaxed
20:51 Anomalous Sources
20:50 Frank G
20:44 Frank G
20:30 Mad Eye Omeretch7959
20:19 746
20:18 746
19:51 Dale
19:44 Frank G
19:43 Frank G
19:26 Nero
19:19 Super Hose
19:15 Super Hose
19:10 Super Hose
19:08 Super Hose
19:04 Super Hose