Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea

Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by sam_lowry_ on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:38PM (#32999295)

If that fraction is FSB management, why not?

Rumor is, there is enormous pressure on Putin to cede power to Patrushev son.

This may be part if a plan to force him into quitting

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by int_19h on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:57PM (#33004080)

I can't help but recall that Igor Strelkov - the guy who, by his own admission, "started the war" (back in 2014, by occupying Slavyansk and Kramatorsk) - is ex-FSB, and ostensibly still very well connected there. And he is very much a hardliner wrt continuing the war, even if it means taking on NATO.

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by petre on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @12:50AM (#33004345)

Patrushev is worse than Putin. It was possibly him who talked Putin into starting this war.

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by sam_lowry_ on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:26AM (#33006066)

Not sure about it. There was a video of the Russian Security Council days before the war when Patrushev looked lost and uninformed. See http://www.kremlin.ru/events/security-council/67825/videos around 1:32

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