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Comment by raldi | Hacker News Reader

> scores of war games point to two likely paths.

Can someone TLDR how it ends?

> there are really only two paths toward ending the war: one, continued escalation, potentially across the nuclear threshold; the other, a bitter peace imposed on a defeated Ukraine that will be extremely hard for the United States and many European allies to swallow.

I was hoping for an oligarch uprising that enlists the help of some other former-kgb taxi driver resulting in Putin being suicided.

Consider the potential for civil war in that scenario, and the opportunism of other nations. Consider the consequences of that, and more. Glib ideas are fine, we all have them, but please do yourself a favor and extrapolate a little before it becomes an "obvious solution" to you or anyone else. Never know who you might influence.

Hey, no need to be Sour Grapes, Jimmy. It seems likely to me that Putin eventually meets the same fate he has given so many others. Does that solve all of the world's problems? Nope, but it solves one of the world's problems.

Does a $1M bounty[1] count?

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-businessman-puts-1-m...

I think that $1M is way to cheap to expect a taker.

A third option that I don't think should be discounted is that Russia falls apart politically, either from assassination or a coup.

A status quo is usually tolerable, but the man is acting unpredictably and really rocking the boat right now, that's rarely beneficial for a leader's longevity, not even among despots.

That's only in the short term. Weeks, months from now. "A bitter peace imposed on a deafeated Ukraine" ... how long until an equally bitter peace gets imposed on a third country?

Die immediately or die by a thousand cuts.

Badly either way

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