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I hope he’s not still alive by then.

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Doesn’t he have cancer or was that just wishful thinking?

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He likely does or did, but the waters are too muddy to have certainty.

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Well, only for us. I’m sure the intelligence community knows.

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He had some weird medical issue that some people guess is cancer. But it just as easily could have been overly cautious covid protections for all the info that gets made public

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Maybe he’ll become as paranoid as Stalin and kill all his doctors. Once can hope. (Sucks for the doctors of course.)

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And the more authoritarians win in Europe and the US the faster that time line is accelerated

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That would be a big mistake by Putin. Could be his last. And it will take more than 8 years to even think about it. Ukraine has deflated the Russian military. It will take more than 10 years for them to rearm

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Last? He’ll be geriatric at that point.

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Then? He’s geriatric now.

Ah, the miracles of plastic surgery and not moving your expression much.

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Ok but… how? With whom?

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They need those 5-8 years for the kids to get big enough to hold the weapons.

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But there won’t be many more coming after that, what with all their men dead and all.

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Nah, they still have all the kids they kidnapped from Ukraine and sent to Belarus

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And with what weapons?

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So in Russian terms, that’s like 40-60 years right? We’re two years into a couple week special operation, so I doubt that they’ll be anywhere close to being able to take on an entire military alliance by 2030 when they can barely handle a single former client state.

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