Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "What if the Russian Military Rebels Against the Kremlin?" video.

Another big difference between 1917 and today is that the state security apparatus is many, many orders of magnitude larger and more omnipotent today than it was in the Czar's time.... and it was pretty big then too. The problem with Putin is that he has such a vast and varied array of rich and powerful people whose fortunes are tied to him so if Putin falls, they fall so they will do whatever it takes to keep him in power. These are what you could call his multiple and overlapping layers of defense. If you can somehow get to them and drive a wedge between them and Putin.... by starting to seize their fortunes held in foreign banks, let's say, as opposed to just freezing them.... they may turn on him to save themselves. Even that wouldn't be without risk as there's no way to predict who or what would replace him.
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@andreimoutchkine5163 Good. Deal with it.... troll!
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@andreimoutchkine5163 The only thieves involved here are Putin and his gang of kleptocrat oligarch friends so stealing from them would be a public service. An even bigger public service would be blowing the lid off of the decades of pillaging that was done by these criminals and laying bare the facts to the Russian people about how they've had the lifeblood of their nation systematically stolen from them. Maybe then, we would see the uprising the criminal Putin so dreads. What a beautiful day that will be.
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@THEROOT1111 Relax, monkey! Nobody is seizing fortunes "right and left." It's a thing that would be done to very specific people/entities for very specific reasons and would require legislation and approval from the courts to do. All you'd need to do is show that it was tied to criminal activity and there's mountains of evidence that it has been. It's also a pretty common tactic to fight criminal activity from persons both in and out of a country so there's lots of precedent for it. As far as that red herring of "trust" goes, seizing the assets of criminal activity would actually increase trust from reputable people so the only ones you'd be driving away would be the undesirables. Britain has learned this already... the hard way.
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@ligametis Don't know much about history, do you? The state security apparatus in Czarist Russia dates back to the 17th century and was massive. It's how they kept order in the conquered lands. Just because the last couple of Czars were lazy, incompetent fools doesn't change that.
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@THEROOT1111 I have substantially more than half a brain.... enough to tell me I'm wasting my time arguing with a troll. Sayonara!
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