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2023-05-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev calls for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed
[NYPOST] Russia’s former president called for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed on Wednesday after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack aimed at assassinating the country’s current leader Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, who is now a top security official, called for the "physical elimination" of Zelensky in a Telegram post on Wednesday following the purported Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin.

"After today’s terrorist attack, there are no options left but the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique," Medvedev wrote.

The former president noted that Zelensky was not necessary for Ukraine’s "unconditional surrender," the independent Russian news outlet Meduza reported.

"Hitler, as we know, didn’t sign [a surrender agreement] either," Medvedev wrote.

"There will always be some replacement, like figurehead president Admiral Dönitz," referencing the German admiral who briefly was head of state after Hitler.
Posted by Fred 2023-05-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Won't stop the war at this point. Earlier in the first days, maybe. But not now. The population is all in.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-05 00:52||   2023-05-05 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Gotta feeling Dmitry will kick off first, from alcohol poisoning.
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-05 01:24||   2023-05-05 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Lindsey Graham hasn't called for anybody's assassination lately, at least that I know of.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-05 07:20||   2023-05-05 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 No need to worry. Z has turned tail and is out of Ukraine. Some say 10 days. 400 feet down bunker destroyed with about 300 NATO and Key Ukrainian personnel killed. Z was supposed to be there. Crickets only sound in western media.
Posted by Dale 2023-05-05 08:18||   2023-05-05 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Reeeaaally? Did you talk to someone?
Posted by Frank G 2023-05-05 08:26||   2023-05-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Zelensky was in Finland for a meeting, but did go back.

Dale, put down the crack pipe dude. It is laced with something nasty it seems.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-05 09:03||   2023-05-05 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 They've been claiming the destroyed bunker in Kiev for weeks or months but also claim the Drone Attack was an unprecedented Act Of War...
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-05-05 09:49||   2023-05-05 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Medvedev is turning into a little fireball lately, calling for tac nukes and assassinations. When he was Prime Minister under Putin, there was a popular joke referred to him as The Vegetable.

Zelensky was in Finland for a meeting, but did go back.

Zel was in Finland for a one day summit when the event occurred. Then he went to the Netherlands to visit the ICC. Still there, last I heard.

The NYT says it is rare for Zelensky to leave the country, but then mentions he was in Poland last month and has plans to visit Germany soon. /eye roll
Posted by SteveS 2023-05-05 10:02||   2023-05-05 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 No need to worry. Z has turned tail and is out of Ukraine. Some say 10 days. 400 feet down bunker destroyed with about 300 NATO and Key Ukrainian personnel killed. Z was supposed to be there. Crickets only sound in western media.
Posted by: Dale 2023-05-05 08:18

Dale,

It didn't happen. Period, full stop, end of story. There's exactly one type of weapon that could have killed a 400 foot deep bunker (which doesn't exist either) and it wasn't used. The whole world would have known it.

If you want to claim that the Soviets Russians are the victorious good guys here, and the Allies/Ukranians are actually the fiendishly evil/clever bad guys whose every word is false, fine. There's better ways to argue it than this.

God alone knows what they are, but give it a try.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-05-05 10:26||   2023-05-05 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Zelensky missed the Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023. He's managing his deposits, now that airport ramp space is available, the Davos crowd is gone and the tellers have caught up on foreign client deposits.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-05 10:34||   2023-05-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#11 This is also a very bad idea.

I guess that depends on where the real slim shadey Elenskyyy is. IIRC there were two in Poland at the same time.

You can, but you have to remember that the vent is ray shielded, so you have to use proton topedoes.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-05 10:35||   2023-05-05 10:35|| Front Page Top

#12 It didn't happen. Period, full stop, end of story. There's exactly one type of weapon that could have killed a 400 foot deep bunker (which doesn't exist either) and it wasn't used. The whole world would have known it.

Not even Russian socialist media says it happened.
Posted by badanov 2023-05-05 10:39||   2023-05-05 10:39|| Front Page Top

#13 The difference, then, between Zelensky and Yanukovych would be that Yanukovych is still alive. Both, however, would have been forcibly removed from office. Sauce for the goose...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-05-05 12:02||   2023-05-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#14 Looks like Big Volo (oh, and the Ukrainian people) will be awarded the Charlemagne Prize on 14 May. These guys at Gates of Vienna (in English) seem to scoff at this idea (as well they should).

Here's a German version from aachen.de
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-05 12:09||   2023-05-05 12:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Can we be certain that was Dale?
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2023-05-05 12:11||   2023-05-05 12:11|| Front Page Top

#16 @#6 - Big Volo did make a stop in Amsterdam from what I read/heard...maybe he met Clinton someone on the tarmac there.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-05 12:14||   2023-05-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

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