Originally Posted by
Ripton
I would have agreed but I think the longer this goes on the less likely the ascension of anyone associated with Putin will be an acceptable option as they will have become too complicit. If too much time passes they might also see themselves as being trapped. "I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er." and all that.
Lavrov being one of those already too toxic.
Telegraph at 10:06am
I think this is the only way now.
The Russians could just stop listening to Putin. If they did this, he has no power. Putin can order this, and order that, but if no one carries out his orders, he is now only the Tzar of his bunker, cut off, isolated, and now Putin is his own Russian Empire of one person...