Obvious plot twist: he did not shoot himself
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
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It is also entirely possible he was “persuaded” into taking his life.
Suicide, or spend the rest of your life in a Russian prison?
Yeah, entirely possible this was a genuine suicide.
Or worse, threats to family and other loved ones.
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This happens in the US when politicians votes are needed.
Perhaps but you might notice this is not a post about US politicians voting for something.
Can someone explain why the inner circle doesn't take this as a warning sign that Putin is dangerous and must be liquidated as soon as possible?
They will all get killed (or "persuaded to suicide") one after another if they don't end the madman. Appeasing Putin will bring you nothing good in the longer term.
Because they're too scared of him to do anything. Also, they're part of a gangster syndicate so they accept this sort of thing as normal business. There will come a point when it gets too much, but I don't think we're there yet. And when it does happen, it'll be fast and nobody will have seen it coming. Although many will claim to have done so after the fact.
Might be a cultural difference.
A Finn would be too scared not to react under the contemporary Russian circumstances. They'd work with the motto "I'm basically dead anyway, so this way I at least bear a chance to maybe survive."
China’s been running a similar racket for like 60 years now, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. Putin gets it. Trump is figuring it out.
We'll see how that will go in the States. I just read a text about why there are so few pickpockets in USA, and someone mentioned that during the Paris Olympics people had tried pickpocketing spectators from USA, and got so frequently immediately beaten up by spontaneously formed mobs of Americans that the French police had to start actively intervening on the side of the pickpockets O.o
Not everyone on this planet is like the Chinese and Russians. But, we are about to see.
It's so weird that so many Russian oligarchs and politicians commit suicide by bullet to the back of the head or jumping off balcony but locking the door first. Something fishy is happening here.