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You are now in charge of Russia. What do you do? (lemmy.world)

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You have all the powers that Putin currently does. Everyone completely loyal to Putin is now loyal to you. Enemies of Putin are enemies of you. Putin no longer exists, and there has been a clean and absolute transfer of power to you. The economic, military, social and political situations are the same as they now are. You are not inhabiting Putin's body, you are just you. You're magically transferred to the Kremlin. The world at large doesn't know your past life, to them you have magically appeared as the new ruler. To everyone who knew you before, you just vanished.

Edit: no one knows your past life YET. They'll quickly figure it out. You will not lose any support based on your actions in your past life.

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[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Aren't you worried about invasion by China or the West?

[-] AE5NE@lemmy.radio 6 points 2 months ago

yeah, “the west” is going to invade 🙄

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, if I were in charge of the US and I was certain the nukes were gone, I absolutely would. Can't waste that opportunity. Put a puppet government in Moscow. Add some blue and white to the red square.

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If Russia didn't have nukes, I guarantee you they would have been invaded over their invasion of Ukraine. (Not that they would have done that without having nukes)

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Not really. When was the last time nukes helped someone not be invaded?

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine the level of ignorance that would prompt such a statement

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Based on what examples?

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Exactly.

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