re: #140 darthstar

Something will eventually inflict enough pain on Russia that they’ll turn on Putin.

Certainly possible that an oligarch gets sufficiently irritated because his daughter is forced to leave UCLA when the sanctions really hit — but likely not. And the ordinary citizens who put up with the Soviet Union and their descendants have not shown enough interest in overthrowing the monarch, especially given his propensity for poisoning critics or tossing them out windows. I just don’t see an uprising among the population at any time during my lifetime. People living in regimes run by autocrats do not suddenly rebel against their masters.