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TexasTowelie

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Fri Nov 7, 2025, 06:37 AM Friday

"No More Silence": Putin Can't Stop What's Coming. It's Already Happening - The Russian Dude



Russia is entering a breaking point. The silence spreading across the country is not peace — it’s the calm before collapse. The war that was promised to be quick and victorious has turned into a senseless, endless disaster. Soldiers on the frontlines are exhausted, disillusioned, and betrayed. Civilians feel the pressure in daily life, and even the most loyal supporters now avoid talking about the war. Everyone understands something is deeply wrong.

This is not about “victory” anymore — it’s about survival. The Russian army is losing morale as soldiers are thrown into meat assaults for land that gets lost again the next day. Commanders lie about casualties, generals falsify reports, and oligarchs profit while families bury sons in silence. The war has become a business. A conveyor belt of bodies feeding corruption. Every missile, every drone, every lost soldier is someone’s paycheck.

The Wagner rebellion exposed the truth the Kremlin tried to hide: power in Russia is a fragile illusion. When Prigozhin marched toward Moscow, the government did not defend itself. Institutions froze. Officials disappeared. People waved from the streets. Fear cracked — and once fear breaks, no regime survives for long.

Now the collapse is spreading from within. Soldiers return home angry and broken, no longer afraid of the Kremlin. Factory workers whisper about strikes. Mothers of dead soldiers gather and talk. Students share banned information. Entire military units refuse orders. These cracks are multiplying every day. Putin cannot silence everyone. He cannot jail everyone. He cannot stop what is coming.

Russia is breaking from the inside. And once the image of the “strong leader” falls — the whole system follows.

This is the story of a regime that cannot hold itself together anymore. The fortress was always just glass — and the first fractures are already visible.

RUSSIA IS BREAKING FROM THE INSIDE. Putin can’t stop what comes next.
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