That sort of is the strategy. Ukraine says they pick targets in Moscow and St. Petersburg that hurt Russia's elites. The trouble is that Russia's elites have little influence over Putin. He crushed that a decade ago.

The battlefront in Ukraine has been stuck for a year. People are dying, but nobody is winning. The front lines don't move much. Nobody really knows what to do. It's very WWI.

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Arnt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Did you know that during WW1, the front lines moves from far west of Ukraine to the far east, and then back again? This war isn't like that.

And it really isn't. Back then the front moved and it mattered. This isn't like that. Ukraine recently hit about 200 ships, not because the front moved and the ships came into range, but because they'd blown up all the defenses along a 200km-long path from the "front" to the ships, so they had free passage. That "front" means much less than in WW1.

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mittensc 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The trouble is that Russia's elites have little influence over Putin.

Well, seems like they better start working on that

I'm curious what happens when elites next to putin start losing their wealth by losing their actual assets

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general1465 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Prigozin tried to go against Putin with actual army. And he was naive enough to think that he can shot at the king, miss and live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion

	▲	mittensc 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Prigozin had a chance When it happened it seemed that the emperor was naked and nobody would protect Putin. All the military ordered to stop him just did not do anything or joined them. Tried to bomb him but plane was shot down and that was that. Only problem is Prigozin called it off, he likely forgot to hide his family Someone more ruthless in his place could have done more

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doublerabbit 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They get shot, thrown out of a window or their jet explodes.

Three simple solutions to eliminate "I want my money". Putin is no joke, he is ex-KGB.

	▲	Animats 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Leaders of Russia who lose a war do not, historically, survive long. Putin spends most of his time in bunkers now, terrified of both attacks from Ukraine and possible coup attempts from his own people.[1] [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-bunker...
	▲	mittensc 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Putin is only powerful as long as institutions continue to follow him. He doesnt throw people out of windows himself, he has his state do that. Move enough people away from supporting him and he's gone.