$1 million dollar bounty on Putin's head!

[Ananta]

Alex Konanykin a Russian investor has put a $1 million bounty on Russian President Vladimir Putin's head, asking for Russian military officers to arrest Putin as a war criminal.

Konanykhin told Insider that he had put up the bounty — which will come from his funds — to show that the military assault on Ukraine is not being conducted in his name. 

"If enough other people make similar statements, it may increase the chances of Putin getting arrested and brought to justice," he added.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-businessman-puts-1-million-bounty-on-putins-head-2022-3

[Consilience]

This is one of many forms of “swarm warfare” that could rapidly escalate to nuclear war. Wasn’t expecting this to spread from the inside out though. While this may seem like a positive, given the complexity of what is happening and how aggressively Russia’s social and financial infrastructure is collapsing, we’re in a very dangerous situation. 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Consilience

[BlueOak]

Also it is the first sign of a someone making a move for the throne I guess. Again to repeat whoever takes his place won't be any better than what the population collectively accept or expect. So its not a happy moment, but I do think it is underestimated how likely it is for someone to replace him, not right now but after this. As we've been told and i've been educated through this crisis, Russia is a brutal place and it won't tolerate weakness (lot of red there). Putin is old and there have been blunders here.  A route for change is suppressed in the population but its less supressed in those with money which hold power there.

[Gesundheit2]

Lol.

[vizual]

Initiate operation Valkyrie

 

[Yog]

What is this, the wild west ?
 

[Fleetinglife]

Seems like an attempt of the Russian elites to find a single, easy scapegoat for this whole crisis, while some of the rest of them hope to go unscathed from it. Attempt to rally other Russians and Russian billioners to denounce him, but I doubt his utmost inner circle will, they are going all in with this - to get some guarantees and concessions from the Ukrainian leadership and present it as a victory of some sort, faced with a seveere and unprecedented Russian antagonism and Russophobia war propaganda campaign coming from the West, their Ukranian clients and other interest aligned countries - they will at least maybe to try to deface NATO's responsibility in part for this because of their unwavering and uncompromising policies towards the Russian Federation and it's military influence and power in the world and hidden involvement in this, with a demand for a Finlandization policy for Ukraine and then some of them might consider to pay war reparations or even pursue some of allegations of war crime cases on the international criminal courts after there is a political shift in power in Russia, even if they oust Putin, Russia is not going rid itself away of it's military power and presence in the world so easily and just be digested into NATO, while disregarding geopolitical and economic consequences of that for other countries who are not aligned with NATO because of that. 

 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Fleetinglife

[vizual]

I’m getting bored by the Russian apologists who continually try to use mental gymnastics to spin the situation in such a way  that Russia somehow was  forced to invade Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people, lol. Bunch of clowns 

[Phil King]

Its gonna take a lot more than 1 million to kill putin. And even if he is assassinated, so what. Another similar or even more corrupt figure will fill his place and be out for revenge. What if Putins assassination is like the assassination of Archduke ferdinand and it starts another world war

[Hello from Russia]

Lol, it won't change a dime, probably will make things worse

If anything, Putin is actually fairly liberal and diplomatic. I am willing to bet someone else would be much more ruthless and reckless in his place

There are a ton of systemic factors at play. It's not as simple as just killing Putin

Edited March 3, 2022 by Hello from Russia

[hello1234]

I’ll chip in on top of that

[Fleetinglife]

18 minutes ago, vizual said:

I’m getting bored by the Russian apologists who continually try to use mental gymnastics to spin the situation in such a way  that Russia somehow was  forced to invade Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people, lol. Bunch of clowns 

To someone who thinks geopolitical considerations is apologia, he is moving from the sphere of practical political science into the spheres of empty dogmatistic religious stances and moral condemnation without bearings and attempts of changing anything in the current reality, which is in fact a show of following a hegemonistic narratives of those who claim to be the current moral centers in the world for the humanity for this issue, the ideocracy and infalliblity of the Vatican in Washington's narrative for this issue - help spread the gospel of NATO to the Ukranians while not bliniking an eye to the indigenous natives currently being bombed in Yemen and starved in Afghanistan by that same doctrine followed to the tee by their allies. 

NATO is not a neutral.org that's doesn't hold any attachments of anything along with it and force it's visions, requirements and demands upon some, it answers also to an extent to the US defense industry, so did not as well early Christanization to a certain schism of the Church, every country has the right to question it's threat to for it's economic impact towards it and it's sovereignity to act freely and as independent nation in the world, not constrained by it in the world. 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Fleetinglife

[vizual]

@Fleetinglife more whataboutisms and apologia for Putins crimes against humanity. Keep em coming brother, a couple of fancy words ain’t fooling nobody.

[Yog]

@vizual  Why do you see NATO criticism as whataboutism ? Isn't NATO one of the key nodes in all this mess.

I just do not think that anyone that is making these NATO focused posts is doing it in order to be Russia apologetic. Its mostly because of a frustration against the western media narrative that just won't provide the whole picture.

[Yarco]

Great way to find yourself suddenly in hospital dying of a mysterious illness, like Russian spies who have defected in the past.

I don't agree with this vigilantism. 

I don't even agree with a Russian billionaire getting their yacht seized in Germany. If they're a private citizen and not a member of the Russian government, they're basically an innocent bystander. What gives them the right? Neither Germany nor NATO is officially at war with Russia and they're just grabbing people's stuff.

[Dryas]

only a million? 100x that and maybe.

[Fleetinglife]

50 minutes ago, vizual said:

more whataboutisms and apologia for Putins crimes against humanity. Keep em coming brother, a couple of fancy words ain’t fooling nobody.

Really, what about your own government's ones swept beneath the surface ones from the collective short term outrage memory, your refusal to provide help and aid and be emphatetic and understanding when you got called out by an Iraqi on this forum for it? That's sounds awfully hypocritical to claim the higher concern, care, empathy and moral highground in regards to me when everybody saw here how you acted in regards towards that. 

NATO's failure and refusal to compromise (like wow, they did so for Finland during the Cold War after they as well, guess what, have been invaded by the Soviets (effectively mostly RFSR then)  and managed to repell them, but didn't still insist on admitting them into NATO without compromise, negotiations or agreements at all costs) criticisms = war crimes apologia of the Russian Federation Military Armed Forces and Officials still loyal and under Putin. 

You are so deep in self-serving superficial shallow dualties that you are not even aware of it brother, perhaps in order out of fear to not be singled out as a black sheep or octrasized by your identity survival nurturing community that you are in right now that shut down their reasoning, critical thinking skills and went in as this homogeneous mass and mob in their opinions and thinking about this the moment, the narrative has started to be massively managed, for people immediately to find one exclusive side they can point their finger to in order to feel good, morally righteous, virtue signal and feel that they are above others actually questioning the cause and now solutions that can lead to the resolution of this total f#up, when this erupted and question the stoking, involvement of their own government's failure in preventing this crisis and it's contribution to the massacres you are so shocked that you are seeing unfold before you, why you pay dutiful taxes to the increases in the military budget for your government in order for it to claim protection rights and obfuscate it's own initial responsibilities in failure to negotiate their NATO stance and policy and possibility of it's future involvement. 

 

 

Edited March 3, 2022 by Fleetinglife

[tsuki]

Understanding something requires investigating reasons for it. Stating those reasons is not the same as making excuses.

The fact is that everybody makes rational decisions within their frame of reference. Weak minds are incapable of stepping into the shoes of people who act against their interest.

[hoodrow trillson]

3 hours ago, vizual said:

I’m getting bored by the Russian apologists who continually try to use mental gymnastics to spin the situation in such a way  that Russia somehow was  forced to invade Ukraine and kill thousands of innocent people, lol. Bunch of clowns 

Thank you.

It's getting a bit ridiculous and makes me wonder if there are Russian bots on this forum.  

[Ananta]

Looks like the Russian Oligarchs are about to get some additional squeezing. Maybe the bounty will go up. Rich ppl don't like their money messed with.. Lol

"The Biden administration is poised to announce sanctions on several Russian oligarchs, in its most extensive step to tackle Vladimir Putin’s business allies following the invasion of Ukraine.

The move by Washington is expected to be imminent and will include a travel ban on a number of Russian oligarchs and their families."

https://www.ft.com/content/f014aa1e-69be-4c54-8973-e428c970fc0d

Edited March 3, 2022 by Ananta