• ATQ@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Recently, he has deteriorated significantly, looks very swollen, and often cannot open his eyes in videos. It is believed that Kadyrov has serious kidney problems, according to Ahmed Zakayev, the former deputy prime minister of Ichkeria, who is in exile.

    Sounds like someone has been taking tea with Putin.

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    1 year ago

    I’m skeptical. I keep reading this exact headline about Putin, Kadyrov and Lukashenko. I’m not saying it’s not true this time, but there have been a lot of false reports in regards to this.

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    1 year ago

    There’s a very short list of people where i was genuinely happy to hear they died. It’s reserved for people like Saddam or Gaddafi. This guy is very much a candidate.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    Given that his grip on Chechnya is a personal one, and unlikely to smoothly transfer to a successor, and maintained by fear, it may do well for Putin to keep him on life support indefinitely, with functionaries relaying “his” orders to followers. Sort of like Warhammer 40K, or perhaps Weekend At Bernie’s.

    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Sort of like Warhammer 40K, or perhaps Weekend At Bernie’s.

      I fucking love that this sentence now exists.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      And you think someone’s not gonna try to opportunistically off Kadyrov if he’s kept in that state indefinitely?

      I see Chechnya collapsing into a quagmire again. There’s still a lot of people living there who aren’t fans of the Russian occupation, to put it mildly.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Good

    Normally I don’t like to piss on someone’s grave, but literally everybody will be better off with certain people gone from this world.

    He’s one of them.

  • Kofu@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Talks like he just finished a professional eating competition and lost.

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    1 year ago

    Kadyrov brought a doctor from the United Arab Emirates to Chechnya because he does not trust Moscow doctors.

    Wait what i thought he and Pootin were friends?