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TexasTowelie

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Tue Sep 2, 2025, 09:33 PM Tuesday

Putin Just Destroyed Russia's Future. Every Successor Eliminated. Final Days - The Russian Dude



Russia’s future has officially been buried under the weight of Putin’s obsession with eternal rule. This isn’t about stability or power—it’s about a man who sees any potential successor as a death sentence to his own reign. From Andrey Turchak’s humiliating exile to the Altai Republic, to Nikolai Patrushev being stripped of his “shadow monarch” image and reduced to a meaningless shipbuilding aide, every so-called heir has been chewed up and discarded. Even Aleksey Dyumin, once painted as the loyal bodyguard-turned-general and Putin’s mythical savior, has been neutered into a powerless secretary role. And Sergei Ivanov? Once a contender for the throne, now forgotten, reduced to protecting leopards as if he never existed.

The message is clear: in Putin’s Russia, succession equals destruction. Every potential replacement becomes a threat, and every threat must be neutralized—by exile, humiliation, or complete irrelevance. This is why Dmitry Medvedev survives only by turning himself into a clown, making sure he never looks dangerous enough to be eliminated. But the long-term cost is catastrophic. Russia now has no heirs, no transition plan, no future beyond the man in the Kremlin. When Putin finally exits the stage, the vacuum will unleash chaos, infighting, and power grabs by criminal networks and military factions. The so-called “final countdown” has begun, and it’s not about who takes over—it’s about what’s left of Russia when there’s nothing and no one left to inherit it.

This is the point of no return for Putin’s Russia, where destroying every successor isn’t clever politics but self-destruction disguised as control.
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Putin Just Destroyed Russia's Future. Every Successor Eliminated. Final Days - The Russian Dude (Original Post) TexasTowelie Tuesday OP
I watched "The Death of Stalin" last week ThoughtCriminal Tuesday #1
And, guess who wants to be Cha Wednesday #2

ThoughtCriminal

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1. I watched "The Death of Stalin" last week
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 11:29 PM
Tuesday

It was a dark satire, not a documentary, so historical accuracy was not a concern - but it may turn out to be prophetic.

I think that when his time comes, there is going to be a convoy of clown-car antics at the Kremlin.

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