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Reminds me of an 'elseworlds' Batman story from a while ago.
Bats kills R'as al Ghul but realizes that Ghul's evil empire is still operational. Batman takes the role of R'as, but sets it up so that all his top lieutenants take each other out. It takes a few years, but eventually the League of Assassins is a force for good in the world.
Something similar in Russia. Pit the worst of the worst against each other and let democracy prevail.
Do you happen to remember the name of it? It sounds good.
John Byrne wrote and illustrated.
The idea is that they start with the characters in 1939 [when they premiered] and move forward decade by decade. Supes stays young while Lois gets older; Robin takes over from Bruce.
It's been a while, but that should be enough.
Immediately stop the war against Ukraine and pull back to the 1990s border, then enlist international experts to improve the country and peacefully integrate with the global community
How do you avoid a coup by the oligarchs?
I would listen to the international experts that i gathered and generally follow their recommendations on how to do that
I have all Putin's powers, right? He seems very capable of having anyone bothering him arrested and tried for something at the least. I think I would arrest a handful of the most prominent complainers and show the rest their option B.
True. You also have control of the state media.
Would you be worried about other nations trying to take advantage of your perceived weakness?
If you can successfully build strong relationship in international community...
Abdicate. And die I guess. I couldn't even navigate politics in the US, no way could I politick at a Vlad level.
Now that's a sequel to Freaky Friday I'm down for. I don't want the Putin mantle though, can the movie feature Zelenskyy and Putin waking up in each other's bodies?
(Real answer btw is the same as everyone else, we just want the war to end and Russia to be free, y'all.)
If I just magically appeared and everyone knows it was magic, I could claim to be God and get even more power.
Immediately start figuring out how I can disappear. I am not cut out for the world Putin lives in.
But assuming I'm staying in the job, I find oligarchs who have been personally impacted particularly badly by western sanctions and share with them that the war has become too costly. I know I can't openly just change my mind, because too much of the apparatus below me would gut me for it and nobody on the other side would believe me. So we're orchestrating a coup against me. If you just let me fuck off, I will, and we'll set it up so that you're taking the reins off of me. Powerful figures that have legitimate grievances against the ongoing costs of the war are going to forcefully oust me and offer peace. I'll try to pick one who will actually do that. Someone who stands to profit enormously from better relations with Europe.
That's a pretty interesting play. "I know you're planning a coup so let's make a deal and avoid all the bloodshed and lost profits."
Put all money into conquering pluto while trying to make it a planet again
United Soviet Socialist States of the Kuiper Belt
Wow, this is my one of my least favorite reincarnation isekai yet
Obviously stop the war but after that: Step one, thorough cleaning of public offices. Step two MRUSSRA hats. Step three, no profits.
Put Zangief as my right hand.
Put most of my hoarded billions $ into funding education in Russia -and funding a legitimate socialist party in America.🇺🇸
I remove the nukes.
Aren't you worried about invasion by China or the West?
yeah, “the west” is going to invade 🙄
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)
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.
If you havent already, I would highly recommend you watch the following video by CGP Grey:
Rules for Rulers https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
It describes why its so difficult to turn a country around from authoritarian to benefiting the people. Even with magical dictatorial power.
Pull out of the wars, declare myself a constitutional monarch, then appoint a prime minister from a reasonable democratic party and then call an election every 5 years.
I do not accept the new position and therefore I leave Russia secretly, as fast as possible, and go back to my home.
After all, I want to live a little longer than Russian leaders usually do.
