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Considering how much they love making empty nuclear threats I’m starting to think Putin is just Kim Jung Un wearing a mask.
I always imagined Putin just says "do this" and then everybody below them has to create a plan around a general idea or order.
At this point, they're just trying to regain what they can. I doubt Putin has any clue as to what is actually happening on the ground. >

From what I hear, Hitler operated similarly. The Fuhrer hated giving orders and when pressed, he gave them generic demands. He did little to discipline his subordinates and cue the war crimes. >

Russia’s fearless leader needs to come out of hiding. >

I think Zelenskyy’s approach here is to antagonize Putin enough by name to make him make a statement. Show himself. >

Seems like a very cost effective tactic to me. Long life to the people of Ukraine. >

I can't tell if he's taunting putin or giving him a lie to save face and play the old game that all the evil and mistakes are not the czar's fault but his deputies as a way out. Probably a bit of both. >

No, it's straight up taunting. >

Richardlov and Larrykov? >

I don't think he's a puppet, there'd be no incentive to have him specifically hold power all these years if he was. Just a crazy man with nothing to lose.
What's miraculous to me is he hasn't been assassinated yet. >

Wasn't it revealed in episode IX it was Palpatine and that he somehow returned? >

Putin is really the first guy since Stalin to attempt to consolidate one-man rule in post-czarist Russia.  After Stalin, the Soviet Union was basically governed by something like a board of directors.  Khrushchev, followed by Brezhnev and the rest, were never allowed to accumulate too much power.  Khrushchev was the first leader of Russia/USSR to survive a removal from power.  Most of them hung on till death, as Putin certainly plans to. >

Honest >

What if Vlady is dead tho? How weird would that be >

Calling out Putin in the middle of a war seems like a good strategy.
To keep his image of a strong man he will have to respond. >

The Russian wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.