Complete agree. This won’t be over when there’s a cease-fire in Ukraine. World has changed profoundly in the 2 yr-Covid pandemic, the Trump era & perhaps to a greater extent geopolitically even in just this last week. WE NOW ALL FULLY RE-APPRECIATE WHAT WE COULD SO EASILY LOOSE. 
https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1497853413912027144
This re-appreciation means NONE OF US will be able to torelate thought of a Bond- movie-level-vilain-turned-basket-case, after a deranged aggression against Ukraine, could remain in any position of power & especially nuclear power. This won’t now be over until #Putin is gone.
You & @HillaryClinton are rightly hoping his so badly mistreated people or his own junta, respectively, will bring him down. I think History has shown how profound Russian social inertia really is (they’ve put up with Stalin and Putin for literally decades!).
Sadly, I think the option of removal by his junta is also unreal for psychological reasons: THERE IS NO ADULT LEFT IN PUTIN’S ROOM, unlike -thankfully for us- there were at several (sadly not all, cf 6/1/21) crucial moments of Trump’s era.
The reason for this difference is the duration their respective auto-kleptocracies. Putin has been in power for (do correct me if I’m wrong!) about 3 decades and in that time he purged every adult and even every adolescent from his room. Don’t believe me?
Well, let me give just 4 examples in very recent memory:
1) the exchange between Putin and his Chief Spy on 22/2/22
2) #Lavrov still turning up to a Human Rights conference today expecting to heard like any other speaker.
1) the exchange between Putin and his Chief Spy on 22/2/22
2) #Lavrov still turning up to a Human Rights conference today expecting to heard like any other speaker.
3) #Nebenzya’s odious behaviour on 22/2-22 at UNSC and still today even when he was to made read his & his 11 closest staff own notice of near-immediate expulsion from the UN and US.
4)And finally just this afternoon:
4)And finally just this afternoon:
Clearly Methinks, these none of 4 senior #Putinjunta members have single moral fiber left in their bodies! They have ALL gone equally stark raving mad to Putin from telling his own lies over and over in order to preserve their own place in his power pyramid.
The solution then to #MakingSurePutinIsReallyGone? Well, I ain’t too sure but IMHO it is tragically going to ressemble the last 10 min of a Bond movie: considerable darkness (onset of WW3… ??😱 hopefully of very short duration !)…
…followed by the world’s destiny resting briefly but hopefully successfully on a very small and select group of international special agents racing to make sure #PutinIsTakenOutBeforeHePressesTheNuclearButton
I really hope I’m wrong.
I really hope I’m wrong.
But, honestly right now, I’ve put my hopes of survival in the rapid action of World’s best Secret Services/Special Forces. Yes, those very same ones that gave the Western Freedom Alliance all that outstanding information since last October of what Putin was scheming….
The US Special Forces found and took out the monsterous #BinLaden under Obama, @HillaryClinton watched it live with him so she knows there is no “mission impossible“ for them. These forces have taken out several other similar caliber monsters since. Now add to them the talents of
the UK’s HMSSs, la DGSE française, and yes, because everyone knows they are the very bravest and most determined (et pour cause!), the Israeli Mossad.
Damn, I really detest the very notion of the #PegasusSoftware but now, sure as Hell, I hope it is not only in #PutinsPhone but in that of every senior or not member of his junta!
#Pegasus, come to think of it that now globally detested #NSO, a probable Mossad « spin-off » did a pretty good job of naming it! grunge.com/215374/the-leg…
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