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Andrew Wallace's avatar

Sooner rather than later the FSB will dump Putin, in order to keep control. My money is on young Andrei Patruschev (son of the 74-year-old Nicholai) and his cronies. Think about it, the oligarchs, Siloviki, can then ‘normalise’ relations with the west, return to their villas on Lake Como and their neglected Kensington apartments. Keep stealing from the Russian state with impunity. What’s not to like?

Simon M's avatar

Not guaranteed though. The KGB / Beria kept Stalin in power, but were sidelined by Khrushchev and the army fairly quickly after his death.

Velociraver's avatar

Seems you've been waiting 25 years for your theory to achieve fruition. I'll take that bet.

Igor Melnyk's avatar

Khodorkovsky’s comparison with the Praetorian Guard is probably the most important point. Authoritarian leaders often fear rivals, oligarchs, generals, and opposition movements. What they rarely fear is the institution they empower the most — until it becomes powerful enough to stop needing them.

Jack Kessler's avatar

Has the KGB at last been discredited as a kingmaker, by all this, does anyone think? They appear to have become, only, a malevolent force, supporting these “policies” of one of their own… but not a policy-maker…

I am trying to imagine our bright new ICE bunch, at our “table”, masked & armed & glowering across at our Army & Political Parties & other power-players who think they themselvfes still have some say… that would be ICE-with-dictator, just like KGB-with-same in Russia, then… Gestapo-with-dictator… Prætorian Guard-with-dictator… nightmares…

But do you suppose the parallel would hold, today, are we / they that far gone?

Gabriella B's avatar

Fsb/ kgb is the only structure he knows, trusts, believes - from his youth. They aren’t his youth mates though, when there is a clear path to takeover, they’ll use it - Greek myths (not only Roman military history) have a universality and symmetry to them: he’ll fall by the betraying methods he used, only coming from a surprising angle. It’ll not even be spectacle, but a back room affair with humiliation attached to it.

USIBARIS's avatar

but who runs the fsb, gru, ... ?

these 'people' are vulnerable, too, are they not

Inkpenart's avatar

I PREDICTED THAT TWO YEARS AGO… I JUST FIGURED HE'S BE HANGING FROM A LAMP POST BY CHRISTMAS LAST YEAR… 2ND TIME IS THE CHARM MAYBE ???… 😉👍👍👍

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Hubala Bubula's avatar

Am excellent article, Michael. I noticed one oversight, however. You speak of the FSB as if it was one thing. It is comprised of people and many of the ones near the top are especially ambitious. An individual among them has to emerge to challenge Putin. It has crossed their minds. The move will be imperceptible…until it happens.

Michael Ann Ochs's avatar

This is a warning. About what t Trump is aiming for in US. Doesn't it sound familiar

Grace O’Malley 🇮🇪🇩🇰's avatar

Oh man! Nearest balcony please!

Relay's avatar

Didn't read it. Fuck off and die, Nazi serial killer. Putin should have executed you, murderer.

USIBARIS's avatar

cool down in siberia, dear chap

Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

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May the skatepark you've constructed between your ears for 133 more generations of God's chosen people continue to be fully populated all day everyday with God's chosen people grinding away all day everyday rent-free👍🏼

How to Stop Islamization.

That trinitarian continent of eurabia previously exhibited two-tiered policing against its Jewish residents in prior millenniums, now it wields the crucifix in holy terror against its residence in England where in Londonistan it's less than 30% White and the victims of Islam are returned to their Islamic victimizers to be victimized again by the church of England police force in that trinitarian Nation to be violated again and made into kabobs, I pondered if someone awakened in the hospital after the Ariana grande concert and read in the paper that street vendors were selling kabobs made of previously victimized peasants from that trinitarian Nation on top of the security guard turning and spreading his cheeks for the Muhammad who blew himself up at the Ariana grande concert, islamophobic reports could result in consequences from the trinitarian police officer resulting in suspension thus illustrating the defective dud fallacy of that trinitarian continent of incessantly turning and spreading its cheeks for Muhammad to get the trinitarian trifecta of Mohammed being the most popular baby, criminal degenerate violator of Innocence and politician name all courtesy of that trinitarian overlord system on that continent of eurabia that in the last century murdered half of the world's Jews with the assistance of half a million Muslims and lost 20 trinitarian Nations to Islam enabling Islam to accumulate 57 in only 1400 years, yet the Jews thrive despite toxic trinitarian jive and gentile guile all the while, so many commenters deflecting to that goitard defect of blaming the Jews including the author as if banking was legit under the trinitarian system, yet the bank of Medici enabled the broken system of kingdom is suppressing peasants and blaming the Jews Half of that toxic trinitarian continent of eurabia already recognized the phony phallustinians despite being obligated under the anglo-american treaty which obligated its signatories to restoring Judea and Samaria into the hands of the Jews, the whole shit show is defective trinitarians being the epitomization of toxically trinitarianism 🤣

You defective dud falsifier truth deniers keep on dry humping your lives away baja🤣

Hopefully you dwell on that shitty trinitarian continent of eurabia were you toxic trinitarians shit and piss the bed daily and blame the Jews as the islamics dominate and violate you and you call out Tommy Robinson for being a Zionist stooge 🤣

Go back to goitardia 🐖 💨 💨 💨

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

I could smell the taint of goitard🐖 from your defective dud deranged comment and your🦄🧚🏼🧞 feed is full on deranged about Jews 🤣🤗☺️😂🙄☺️

May the skatepark you've constructed between your ears for 133 more generations of God's chosen people continue to be fully populated all day everyday with God's chosen people grinding away all day everyday rent-free👍🏼

How to Stop Islamization.

That trinitarian continent of eurabia previously exhibited two-tiered policing against its Jewish residents in prior millenniums, now it wields the crucifix in holy terror against its residence in England where in Londonistan it's less than 30% White and the victims of Islam are returned to their Islamic victimizers to be victimized again by the church of England police force in that trinitarian Nation to be violated again and made into kabobs, I pondered if someone awakened in the hospital after the Ariana grande concert and read in the paper that street vendors were selling kabobs made of previously victimized peasants from that trinitarian Nation on top of the security guard turning and spreading his cheeks for the Muhammad who blew himself up at the Ariana grande concert, islamophobic reports could result in consequences from the trinitarian police officer resulting in suspension thus illustrating the defective dud fallacy of that trinitarian continent of incessantly turning and spreading its cheeks for Muhammad to get the trinitarian trifecta of Mohammed being the most popular baby, criminal degenerate violator of Innocence and politician name all courtesy of that trinitarian overlord system on that continent of eurabia that in the last century murdered half of the world's Jews with the assistance of half a million Muslims and lost 20 trinitarian Nations to Islam enabling Islam to accumulate 57 in only 1400 years, yet the Jews thrive despite toxic trinitarian jive and gentile guile all the while, so many commenters deflecting to that goitard defect of blaming the Jews including the author as if banking was legit under the trinitarian system, yet the bank of Medici enabled the broken system of kingdom is suppressing peasants and blaming the Jews Half of that toxic trinitarian continent of eurabia already recognized the phony phallustinians despite being obligated under the anglo-american treaty which obligated its signatories to restoring Judea and Samaria into the hands of the Jews, the whole shit show is defective trinitarians being the epitomization of toxically trinitarianism 🤣

You defective dud falsifier truth deniers keep on dry humping your lives away baja🤣

Simon M's avatar

By the guy that thinks communism worked in Russia and Eastern Europe. 😂

Digger B!'s avatar

So Russia is ruled by Putin, with a potential threat from the KGB?

Meanwhile in America, the CIA helps assassinate sitting presidents, refuses to cooperate with Congressional Committees and ignores Presidential Executive Orders.

And in the UK, Mi6 grooms Prime Ministers who openly recognise that they are not in charge. For example, David Cameron rejected requests for an enquiry into MoD / SIS complicity in the killing of Pat Finucane, because they "won’t let it happen".

Which is worse?!

https://web.archive.org/web/20230406215755/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/mystery-intervention-against-pat-finucane-inquiry/28702964.html

Lindy Hubert's avatar

I wish the KGB would get to slaying that dragon, and then off itself. Sadly, it appears to be replicating in the Chump administration.

Velociraver's avatar

I see no substantive difference between FSB, CIA, SBU, MI6..they all operate without meaningful oversight.

Sasha Antonov's avatar

🔥 MODERN WARFARE IS REWRITING THE RULES.

THE FRONT LINE IS NO LONGER THE ONLY BATTLEFIELD. THE REAR HAS BECOME A TARGET, AND THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.

READ MY NEW ARTICLE. 👇

https://sashaantonov.substack.com/p/when-the-battlefield-extends-beyond?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5feb9f