What does post-Putin Russia look like? Who is his likely successor?

[Anonymous]

The FSB will take Navalny out of the picture in the context of a power struggle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people afraid of Russian trolls? The politics in Russia are relevant to what is happening in Ukraine and in the US.

Most Americans don’t know the first thing about Russian politics.

When I was there a few years ago, people told us they supported him because there was really no one in the wings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apres lui, le deluge.

He’s ensured there’s no clear successor so that no one can threaten him. Patrushev has competition and enemies. There’s going to be an ugly power struggle after Putin à la the USSR after Stalin. Patrushev is the modern day Beria. The bull’s eye on his back is too big for him to survive.

Very true.

Fear the power vacuum: it usually yields even worse people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people afraid of Russian trolls? The politics in Russia are relevant to what is happening in Ukraine and in the US.

Most Americans don’t know the first thing about Russian politics.

When I was there a few years ago, people told us they supported him because there was really no one in the wings.

That is depressing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apres lui, le deluge.

He’s ensured there’s no clear successor so that no one can threaten him. Patrushev has competition and enemies. There’s going to be an ugly power struggle after Putin à la the USSR after Stalin. Patrushev is the modern day Beria. The bull’s eye on his back is too big for him to survive.

Very true.

Fear the power vacuum: it usually yields even worse people.

Does that vacuum pose more or less of an international threat? Thinking Russian oil and natural gas of the top of my head.

[Anonymous]

Why is no one talking regime change in Russia? Do people fear it would make things worse for Ukraine? Are the walls around him so inpenetratable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is no one talking regime change in Russia? Do people fear it would make things worse for Ukraine? Are the walls around him so inpenetratable?

Because regime change does not work, you moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Navalny

Yes, because Russia is in dire need of a nationalistic, Russia-first, "Georgians and Central Asians are scum rodents" president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is no one talking regime change in Russia? Do people fear it would make things worse for Ukraine? Are the walls around him so inpenetratable?

Because regime change does not work, you moron.

I’m not advocating it but discussions about hopes for it are oddly silent. Didn’t the US support zelensky, the Ukrainian president?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Navalny

Yes, because Russia is in dire need of a nationalistic, Russia-first, "Georgians and Central Asians are scum rodents" president.

OK smarty pants. Who do you think is next? One of the oligarchs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is no one talking regime change in Russia? Do people fear it would make things worse for Ukraine? Are the walls around him so inpenetratable?

Because regime change does not work, you moron.

I’m not advocating it but discussions about hopes for it are oddly silent. Didn’t the US support zelensky, the Ukrainian president?

Why don't you ask Vicki Nuland? She has all kinds of ideas about who should run Ukraine. Maybe she can lend her government-legomaking expertise to Russia as well. Oh, and fock the EU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is no one talking regime change in Russia? Do people fear it would make things worse for Ukraine? Are the walls around him so inpenetratable?

Because regime change does not work, you moron.

I’m not advocating it but discussions about hopes for it are oddly silent. Didn’t the US support zelensky, the Ukrainian president?

And looked how it worked out for his country!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Petrushev has acted as right hand to Putin and reinforces his worst instincts. Medeved briefly replaced Putin but is more or less a puppet with little public or institutional support. Russians love their strongmen and the oligarchs closest to the military will be calling the shots. Look for a hyper nationalist Andropov type not a Gorbachev, Yeltsin or even a Brezhnev.

I don’t think so. Russian political players come from state security, not the military. In fact, they keep the military weak on purpose so as mot to have competition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is no one talking regime change in Russia? Do people fear it would make things worse for Ukraine? Are the walls around him so inpenetratable?

Because regime change does not work, you moron.

I’m not advocating it but discussions about hopes for it are oddly silent. Didn’t the US support zelensky, the Ukrainian president?

Why don't you ask Vicki Nuland? She has all kinds of ideas about who should run Ukraine. Maybe she can lend her government-legomaking expertise to Russia as well. Oh, and fock the EU.

All I’m saying is that is a fairly recent example of change the US and others got involved in yet we hear Fri let’s about Putin and Russia. It is strange, no?

[Anonymous]

I heard Bortnikov could be a successor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bortnikov