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2022-04-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Predicts 'Palace Coup' May Oust Putin Over Ukraine

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-19 09:43|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 What Mr. Kasparov along with many others would like to see happen, may not reflect reality.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-19 09:50|| 2022-04-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia will probably win but it will be a Pyrrhic victory, especially for Putin. (And we have been seeing suggestions for a while now that Putin has Parkinson’s- which can have mental illness/irrationality elements, which could explain some of the Ukraine actions.)

Posted by Glenmore 2022-04-19 10:25|| 2022-04-19 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Chess hell.

Give me the consistent Allied winner in Axis and Allies: Pacific.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-19 11:02|| 2022-04-19 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 5 Famous Pyrrhic Victories

Yeah, turning Ukraine to a nuclear wasteland would be Pyrrhic.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-19 11:11|| 2022-04-19 11:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Not a "nuclear wasteland," just a Gaza style shithole that the West's grifters will spend $1 trillion or more of their people's money trying to "reconstruct"... just like the Iraq boondoggle and the Afghan sinkhole

Posted by Butch Ebbomble2091 2022-04-19 11:33|| 2022-04-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Meanwhile, Russia destroys Ukraine's ability to export anything (except needy refugees), takes over that country's share of the global wheat market and grabs all its natural gas reserves in the Donbas.

All while the US destroys the reserve currency status of the dollar, the West becomes significantly poorer, China gains power and influence and the non-western world orients itself toward Russia and China.

Posted by Butch Ebbomble2091 2022-04-19 11:38|| 2022-04-19 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't hold your breath for Putie-pie to be ousted this way.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-19 13:06|| 2022-04-19 13:06|| Front Page Top

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