ABC Reporter Rachel Scott Asks Vladimir Putin About His Dead And Imprisoned Opponents And What He's So Afraid Of

[Huey]

This is why journalism is a pillar of society.

I often wonder what's going to happen in Russia politically once Putin kicks the bucket. Nobody can rule forever.

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I was reading that Putin has plundered the country to such a degree that one of the main reasons for his presidency never being permitted to end is to prevent the absolute scale of it from being revealed for as long as possible. Another glasnost and perestroika scenario leading to collapse.

 

[lorddarkflare]

There will be an enormous power vacuum when he croaks. Putin doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would have a successor ready to go because he'd fear the successor would try to take him down before it's time.

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Correct. The real problem will be the gaggle of pretenders trying to out-Putin him.

They will be worse because in their quest for legitimacy they will try to go farther.

 

[EternalDarko]

Being from the UK, I don't think I've ever heard of her, but wow, she's formidable. All the respect to her.
Also, America, please keep her safe!

 

[nihilence]

Brave.

 

[Stooge]

I would hide in a bunker for the next 3 months now, but amazing questions.

 

[Jesiatha]

The second video is crazy. He goes on a long whataboutism rant regarding the 1/6 attack on the capitol building. Says that those "protestors" are being arrested or were even killed, when they were just trying to make a (can't remember if he said 'peaceful') political statement.

 

[captive]

The general problem is they never answer the question and often you probably don't know what the journalist asked and the media are friends and colleagues to stay on the greasy pole. It's never going to happen.

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Sorry but that's bullshit access journalism.
If you want to be PR for politicians, go be PR.

 

[lunarworks]

I mean I think it's fair to assume that he just couldn't give any less of a fuck what happens after he's gone so why bother? nevermind any kind of fear or paranoia - he'd have to want what's best for his country and his people for it to even occur to him. At most he's seen maybe some papers cross his desk asking if they should wind up looking for someone to fit the bill that he just ignored and never signed and everyone working near him is smart enough to know what that means.
Drop it. LoL

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Oh yeah, I highly doubt Putin cares about what happens after he dies. The man's petty enough that he may potentially have a sabotage plan as a "fuck you" for after his death.

 

[SilkySm00th]

Oh yeah, I highly doubt Putin cares about what happens after he dies. The man's petty enough that he may potentially have a sabotage plan as a "fuck you" for after his death.

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LoL - THIS i could see Putin doing. For sure.

 

[sacrament]

Brave. And fuck Putin.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

I often wonder what's going to happen in Russia politically once Putin kicks the bucket. Nobody can rule forever.

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Seriously. And he's nearly 70. While he *could* live another 20-30 years, he could also go in another 2-3. I seriously doubt they're at all prepared for any kind of succession, and I doubt they ever will be, by design.

 

[harry the spy]

Bravo, I very much hope she doesn't end up like the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation, Daphne Caruana Galizia

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I hope I'm right, but I don't think she is running such a high risk. She doesn't influence Russian politics and isn't saying anything that people don't know already. Having US journalists criticize him probably won't affect Putin back home. The Panama papers revealed something that was definitely not known publicly in such details and that was very much intended to stay secret forever.

kudos to her in any case, it's nice to see Putin taken to task for once.

 

[Razmos]

Super brave woman. I wish journalists would have that kind of harsh questioning for any politician but this is especially crazy brave

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Damn. I'm sweaty and nervous just thinking about being her in that situation. That's bravery taken to 11.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Oh yeah, I highly doubt Putin cares about what happens after he dies. The man's petty enough that he may potentially have a sabotage plan as a "fuck you" for after his death.

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If there's anyone on Earth planning a real-life "Operation: Cinder", it's Putin.

 

[LTWood]

It's much easier to hold other world leaders to account than our own. Nevertheless, a very brave line of questioning that should be commended.

 

[El Bombastico]

I often wonder what's going to happen in Russia politically once Putin kicks the bucket. Nobody can rule forever.

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Especially because Putin strikes me as someone paranoid enough to deliberately NOT have any sort of succession plan in place just so that no one in his inner circle gets any ideas.

 

[Beef Supreme]

Someone call Guinness. She clearly has the biggest balls I've ever seen.

 

[brawndolicious]

Awesome reporter, I don't know if Putin could take the blowback of going after a non-Russian journalist but that is a real risk since you know he's at least having the plans drawn up.

I kinda imagine its like Death of Stalin movie.

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It'll be this scene:

"I have documents on all of you!"

But with like 20 different dudes saying that to each other since we live in the information age. It's going to be very messy.

 

[entremet]

It's much easier to hold other world leaders to account than our own. Nevertheless, a very brave line of questioning that should be commended.

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???

 

[Cyclonesweep]

I don't think Putin will try and have her killed either. He can cover up his own bs but a foreign journalist calling him out?

 

[Deleted member 15227]

Incredible journalist. Seeing Putin wriggle and squirm is also a sight to behold.

 

[Nephtes]

I hope our president pushed Putin this hard in their private meeti—

Biden gifts Putin a crystal sculpture of an American bison and custom aviators during their first face-to-face meeting at Geneva summit

Aviators are President Joe Biden's go-to sunglasses. Russian President Vladimir Putin's new pair was made by Randolph USA.

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He gave Putin some custom aviator sunglasses and a crystal bison??

sigh.

 

[mentok15]

This is why journalism is a pillar of society.

I was reading that Putin has plundered the country to such a degree that one of the main reasons for his presidency never being permitted to end is to prevent the absolute scale of it from being revealed for as long as possible. Another glasnost and perestroika scenario leading to collapse.

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Isn't there some rumours/conspiracies that he's the wealthiest person alive? Like a few hundred billion?

 

[Remmy2112]

Isn't there some rumours/conspiracies that he's the wealthiest person alive? Like a few hundred billion?

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Yes. He's got a piece of the pie of virtually every Russian business he's handed out to his inner circle of oligarchs, enough that he's the unofficial richest man in the world.

When he eventually dies those oligarchs and his generals are all going to fight over the country while Putin's corpse is still warm.

 

[Mobius 1]

I'd eat canned and bottled food for the next month if I was her.

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Rest of her life you mean.

 

[Thorn]

I hope our president pushed Putin this hard in their private meeti—

Biden gifts Putin a crystal sculpture of an American bison and custom aviators during their first face-to-face meeting at Geneva summit

Aviators are President Joe Biden's go-to sunglasses. Russian President Vladimir Putin's new pair was made by Randolph USA.

news.yahoo.com

He gave Putin some custom aviator sunglasses and a crystal bison??

sigh.

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Thats just typical diplomacy. You don't need to be earnest with that crap.

 

[mentok15]

Rest of her life you mean.

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(Un)Luckily for her that won't be for very long...

 

[timedesk]

This was brave as hell. It's cool to see a journalist step up like this. It is tragic that we all now have to realistically worry about her safety.

 

[Orange Piccolo]

That was incredibly brave, but she essentially threw her life away.

There's no way she escapes retaliation.

 

[maks]

Dang. I think Biden disrespected her this same day too.

Edit: nope, bad source. Was another reporter.

 

[spootime]

Dang. I think Biden disrespected her this same day too.

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Do you really think that though? Like you read the original post where Rachel Scott asked Putin a question, and then linked a video where Biden apologized for snapping at Kaitlan Collins, and thought they were the same person?

 

[Imperfected]

Or stay way from windows.

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She's not a doctor, windows should be safe.

 

[Ramsay]

I often wonder what's going to happen in Russia politically once Putin kicks the bucket. Nobody can rule forever.

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It's very unlikely that Putin will have a competent successor trained, given the fact that such a successor will inherently pose a threat to Putin.

The best case scenario is a power struggle similar to that which occurred after Stalin's death, in which the "moderates" united to get rid of the nutjobs before said nutjobs could purge them in a relatively non-violent power struggle.

A worst case scenario (in the Russian perspective) would mean that disintegration of the Russian state in the form that it takes today - perhaps a Russian state would remain around Moscow and St. Petersburg, but there would be an extremely violent power struggle and the ethnic minorities would likely break away to form new states.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Brave.

And christ...Putin's response was straight up painful to listen to. "Yeah, I kill and imprison my political opponents, but you're in the midst of giving prison time to people who attempted a perfectly harmless violent insurrection!" Fuck off.

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This is pretty poetic considering that the term 'whataboutism' literally originated as Soviet-era propaganda. Putin is just reading from his old playbook.

 

[subpar spatula]

Incredible journalist. Seeing Putin wriggle and squirm is also a sight to behold.

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There is none of that. He is untouchable. He knows it. He just won't admit he ordered these killings and imprisonments. He has zero reason too. If anything, he is watching people try to get him in a gotcha, but that doesn't matter. An article about in a paper won't do anything. The only thing removing Putin from power is foreign intervention, assassination, death by natural causes, or if the Russian people protest him to jail/death.

 

[Deleted member 82064]

We need more reporters like her. I hope nothing bad happens to her because of her bravery.

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Seriously doubt Russian government would go after foreign journalist for a hard question. I mean, they can just vet her our in the future from these press events.

 

[Mudcrab]

I hope our president pushed Putin this hard in their private meeti—

Biden gifts Putin a crystal sculpture of an American bison and custom aviators during their first face-to-face meeting at Geneva summit

Aviators are President Joe Biden's go-to sunglasses. Russian President Vladimir Putin's new pair was made by Randolph USA.

news.yahoo.com

He gave Putin some custom aviator sunglasses and a crystal bison??

sigh.

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Heads of states exchanges gifts like this all the time, there are funny stories about some of them being bugged.

 

[Infinity Times Two]

There will be an enormous power vacuum when he croaks. Putin doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would have a successor ready to go because he'd fear the successor would try to take him down before it's time.

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You'd think he would learn from history. Stalin didn't choose a successor and the eventual winner of the power struggle, Cruschev, renounced Stalins actions and legacy.

 

[El Bombastico]

You'd think he would learn from history. Stalin didn't choose a successor and the eventual winner of the power struggle, Cruschev, renounced Stalins actions and legacy.

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You think someone like Putin gives a FUCK what happens after he dies? These dictators always think they're immortal, and if they're gonna die, everyone else deserves to suffer for it (see Hitler and the Nero Decree)

 

[KDR_11k]

There will be an enormous power vacuum when he croaks. Putin doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would have a successor ready to go because he'd fear the successor would try to take him down before it's time.

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The successor will probably be a Maduro, the kind of idiot that doesn't actually pose a threat to the ruler. God help those still alive when he takes power.