Pick whatever non-NATO source.

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    During his next public speech, you’d notice that his eyebrows are slightly bushier, his voice is slightly deeper, and he’s suddenly an inch taller.

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    No matter who actually did it. Russia would blame Ukraine/NATO/USA/The West in general, together and separately in rotation.

    After that I have no real idea, who would succeed. There would be a massive power struggle both in the government and military.

    There is a strong possibility that several of the autonomous regions within the Russian federation would try to break away. There is about a 20% chance of a civil war because of this.

    And about a 1% chance of nukes being used.

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    There would be a power vacuum, probably a few murders/suicides/defenstrations, and the elections scheduled for a few months from now will probably be postponed during the struggle for leadership of the country. My guess is the powers that eventually take over will agree to pull out of Ukraine, conduct a few show trials, and do whatever else they think they have to in order for the west to lift the sanctions and unlock the oligarch’s accounts.

    It would please me greatly to know that Ukraine will outlive Putin.

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      That’d probably be true for a while, but after that they’d need to start an “election” where some military commander or other higher up will take his chair.

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        Fascists do not care about truth or facts, only authority, so whichever they deem more useful to them at the time they will make use of.

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          This isn’t about truth or facts. If something major happens in Russia or related to it and the president doesn’t show up to talk about it, that would raise eyebrows. Now imagine that happening over and over again. Putin dying would be the perfect opportunity for the US to start swaying Russia into a civil war. They definitely don’t want the president’s chair to be empty and contested for.

          The most useful thing to them will always be to shove anyone atop that chair before the US notices.

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        Life imitates art. He died, they put his head in a jar and then just kept going.

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    destabilization until the Kremlin finds a new president in that time probably multiple nations would be indipendent and Ukraine would pretty much launch their offensive and the union state collapses and tv stations all across Russia hijacked