Have they got Putin

looks like something is going down in Russia, a lot of action heading to the Kremlin, the speculation being that there has been an assassination attempt on Putin. All we have is a video , and a comment from an embassy employee in the comments that "Something has happened" If Putin is backing Iran and assasination of leaders is the flavor of the day it might not be pure speculation.

a reply to: annonentity

His birthday was yesterday.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

October Surprise?

Looked like all police vehicles, no ambulances.

NATO decapitation strike? That would be crazy
Our military forces everywhere would surely be on high alert.

With all the Kremlin hard liners under Putin, an assassination by NATO would lead to a declaration of war.

originally posted by: RazorV66
Looked like all police vehicles, no ambulances.
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With all the Kremlin hard liners under Putin, an assassination by NATO would lead to a declaration of war.

More likely the other way around.

Supposedly, back in the early days of the Ukraine war, the US IC picked up many indications that Putin was seriously planning on using a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine. The Joint Chiefs worked through various response scenarios and finally came up with the one that Biden communicated to Putin. The Strategic Analyst Peter Zeihan has discussed this several times on his podcast, and he has a lot of informants everywhere. You can listen to his most recent discussion on this topic, here:

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Basically, the message that was supposedly communicated to Putin was:

"If you use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine the US will destroy all Russian shipping in all your ports that can be reached with conventional weapons. We will use only non-nuclear weapons so that there is no threat of escalation. If you use a nuclear weapon against a NATO country, the first volley of non-nuclear weapons will target you (Putin) directly."

Make of that what you will.