Ukraine

Stalin, a man Putin would love to be compared to said his position was that of holding a wolf by the ears - any slight release and he would be eaten alive.

Stalin died in his office after a stroke. They dont know when it was because everyone was too araid to check on him.

Imo, it's what having a shit load of money does to people's brains.

If you have a lot of it for long enough, you tend to think you deserve it/are important. But if your actions are shit because you are inherently neither of those things, then it creates some painful cognitive dissonance. And when you have that much money, not much is uncomfortable except what's on your conscious. So specifically: You have money, but people don't seem to like what you do with it, and that bothers you literally more than anything else (as all other problems of yours have been solved with money).

So instead of figuring out ways to use your money productively, you just go find others that won't judge you for spending it all on what you like. But that goes both ways, as this group WILL judge you for not liking what THEY like to spend all their money on selfishly.

And what they like, is to be selfish - to build a bigger dick shaped rocket than anyone else who has the money to do the same. So, in order to keep the selfish assholes liking you, you complement them for being one while being ignorant that you are now the same.

The world gets a bunch of dick rockets that do nothing for it. And everyone who spends money selfishly feels they're doing the right thing.

Basically, any societal pressure to spend money productively for the benefit of everyone can now just be suplanted by greedy peer pressure to exploit society for more dick rockets.

Emotionally, building dick rockets is now the only thing that makes these people feel they deserve their wealth. So at the end of their lives, they will do EVERYTHING in their power to finish their dick rocket masterpiece, as to them, it is directly tied to the legacy they're leaving behind.

Without ever realizing their legacy is just another waste of billions that could have benefited humanity though being used in almost any other way. They've tied their own worth and self image to dick rocket building without realizing not a single other person benefits from or cares about dick rockets.

Europe is Putins Dick Rocket. Trump is McConnells Dick Rocket. Exploiting the stock market is Pelosi's Dick Rocket etc.

In the pursuit of their own happiness, they reject any notion of charity in favor of more greed. Because they've never realized that their money doesn't make them happy, it's what they do with it that does. Instead of reaching that realization, they've instead tricked themselves into believing using money to make Dick Rockets could somehow make them happier than the social good-will basic charity always provides.

I already have two bottles to celebrate.

Champagne prices would skyrocket.

Putin getting intense radiation poisoning and spending a few weeks literally disintegrating while being kept alive in a hospital wouldn't be great. But it would be very close.

trump, elon, etc should also fall down the stairs shitting their pants

And imagine being the guy responsible for keeping him alive while failing to do so. You're probably shitting yourself twice over that you and/or your loved ones will be severely punished if that happens.

I understand the sentiment behind this, but FTR, the Hippocratic Oath is specifically towards patients: to treat them equally with the sole goal of improving their condition(s).

Hating on one particular doctor fulfilling their oath is misguided unless you want proving you're worthy of treatment before any doctor will help you to become the norm.

Depends on who can control the media and the military. The first few are probably not going to last too long because of the shitastic economy they're going to inherit. Ukraine could get worse if they see it as necessary to prove themselves/distract from the economy or they could pull out so they can consolidate domestics affairs first.

I imagine the immediate successor will be in a pretty shitty spot. Putin has been redlining the Russian economy for years on this personal strongman war. To my knowledge the whole operation is held together by his coercion and cult of personality.

I'll be curious to see if Putin's foreign agents remain loyal. I get the impression that Trump and other puppets are directly in Putin's orbit and might be less likely to attach themselves to a Russia in tumult.

They do this for every US president too since Reagan I believe