"I'm in!"

[George K]

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/putin-says-hell-run-for-president-again-in-2024/

Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB spy to stay in power until at least 2030.
Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has already served as president for longer than any other ruler of Russia since Josef Stalin, beating even Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year tenure.

After Putin awarded the Ukraine war veterans with Russia's highest military honor, the Hero of Russia gold star, Artyom Zhoga, a lieutenant colonel born in Soviet-era Ukraine who fights for Russia, asked the president to run again.

"I will not hide that I have had different thoughts at different times but it is now time to make a decision," Putin told Zhoga and the other decorated soldiers. "I understand that there is no other way."

"I will run for the post of president," Putin was shown in television footage saying in the gilded Georgievsky Hall, part of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

[Horace]

Looking forward to the debates.

[George K]

@Horace

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in "I'm in!":

Looking forward to the debates.

They should send Vivek.

[Renauda]

“An improvement in relations between Russia and the West does not look likely [in the short-term] — and the renewal of Putin’s formal presidential mandate in the March election will only reaffirm that impression,” Noble said.

And in Ukraine, the Kremlin will continue to attempt to break the deadlock on the frontlines, with the possibility of a major new escalation once the election is over, Ignatov said.

"Putin is waiting for the anti-Russian consensus to crack,” Ignatov said. “What he sees now in the U.S. and in Europe around Ukraine only convinces him that he is right. So his goal is to force the West to negotiate on Moscow's terms — not only on Ukraine, but on the entire post-Soviet space. He wants to divide the world into spheres of influence again.”

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/09/putin-to-bet-on-ultra-conservatism-economy-and-victory-in-ukraine-in-2024-election-campaign-a83372

[George K]

The last paragraph is interesting.

What post-soviet space, the Baltics? Czech? Hungary? Poland?

[LuFins Dad]

Shocker.

[Renauda]

@George-K said in "I'm in!":

The last paragraph is interesting.

What post-soviet space, the Baltics? Czech? Hungary? Poland?

At this point we can only presume everything as it was in when Stalin died in 1953.