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goobster  ·  786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Russia attacks Ukraine as Putin vows to ‘demilitarise’ neighbor

Serious people are debating Putin's mental health, now. This invasion was so poorly planned and executed, it's really baffling ... unless you add in Putin maybe not playing with all of his marbles.

Which, judging from the international humiliation the Russians are suffering in this fiasco, might lead a non-stable man to do something dramatic. Like actually use nukes.

I mean, everything he said he'd do, he has done so far. And now he says that he is activating his nuclear weapons arsenal in preparation, and making really nasty statements about raining down destruction on anyone who gets in the way of him peeing all over Ukraine.

I know I'm a drama queen and always looking for the worst, but this doesn't seem too far-fetched for the shambolic mess that the NKVD, Russia, and the ruling oligarchs have become...