I mean that's generally how these things go. The regime collapses when it can no longer keep the internal conflict or economic strife quiet. It starts before it ends, but we don't know it's happening until it ends.
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It’s like the Hemingway quote about going bankrupt:
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Dont wanna be pedantic, but I think the quote was
"Gradually, and then all at once."
Don't wanna be pedantic (yes I do) but after a little bit of searching, the originally presented quote seems correct (without the "and" though, it seems). Your version is mixed with a common misquote "Slowly at first, then all at once." of that quote.
Okay, but will it be replaced by something better, or just the most ruthless, violent and opportunistic who can rush in (heh) and fill the power vacuum first?
Well, all the top contenders are being defenestrated, and that evolutionary pressure is creating a new niche that will be filled by some kind of smart, quiet, and patient opportunist. Maybe.
Putin was a smart, quiet and patient opportunist. He rose to power because people thought they could install him as a puppet at first. He just then quickly cut the strings and had the puppeteers taken care of.
We have no way to know that. But when things are bad, it's worth trying out. It can turn out badly, but there's also a chance for a good kind of change - those do happen sometimes as well.
3 days....
Special regime change operation.
Regime change is illegal and we don't do that!
Furtively pushes Chile, Iran, Iraq, and a host of others back under the rug
Didn't he juat warn us?
Foiled again
That's a powerful move after being incarcerated in Siberia.
What is Russia going to do about it? Poison him in the UK?
Yes, exactly that.
Not to burst your bubble, but they've done it before.
I think that might be what he was alluding to
It was a joke. I am well aware of the Novitshok assassination.
I think he knows...
We didn't care about replacing him.
If he'd been ... remotely fucking human, we would have been fine tolerating him forever so long as he didn't throw kids into blenders.
Now, he chose to give us no choice, he's gotta be gone.
youre gunna hafta cut the head off this particular dragon, me thinks
Oops. Not dragon. Is hydra.
Yee; gonna have to go for the heart me thinks.
Whoops hydra heart it's got multiple hearts