Wanted: Dead or Alive, $1M reward for Putin (Page 1/4)
blackrams MAR 02, 10:17 PM
Wanted: Dead or Alive': Russian Tycoon Puts $1M Bounty on Putin's Head
https://www.msn.com/en-us/n...AUwRyZ?ocid=msedgntp


A Russian businessman is offering $1 million to any military officer who apprehends Russian President Vladimir Putin "dead or alive" for committing war crimes in his invasion of Ukraine.

Alex Konanykhin, an entrepreneur and former banker, posted the bounty on social media as Russia enters a full week of military action against the neighboring country. Western governments and companies have responded to the invasion by seeking to economically punish Putin and Russia's ruling elite. The bounty offered by Konanykhin, who is now based in the U.S., places an even more direct target on the Russian leader as backlash over the invasion continues to escalate.

Konanykhin said in a Facebook post Tuesday that he promised to pay the officer or officers the money for arresting "Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws."

"As an ethnic Russian and a Russia citizen, I see it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia," Konanykhin said in the post. Putin has sought to justify his invasion of Ukraine by saying Russian forces would "denazify" the country, an explanation that has been dismissed by Western powers.

Konanykhin, whose profile picture shows him wearing a shirt with the yellow and blue colors of the Ukrainian national flag, said in his post that he would continue his "assistance to Ukraine in its heroic efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's Orda." "Orda" means "horde" in Russian.

An earlier version of Konanykhin's post on LinkedIn included a photo of Putin with the words "Wanted: Dead or alive. Vladimir Putin for mass murder," according to The Jerusalem Post. The post appears to have been taken down.

Konanykhin, who made his fortune and rose to prominence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, said in his post that Putin came to power "as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia, then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents."

Earlier in the invasion, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian military forces marked him and his family as top targets during a televised address last week.

"The enemy marked me as target number one, and my family as target number two," Zelensky said last week.

Konanykhin had started more than 100 companies by the age of 25, following the fall of communism in Russia, according to a 1996 article in The Washington Post. According to his website, Konanykhin is currently based in New York City and is the CEO of Transparent Business, a digital work platform.

Well now, this is getting interesting........ BTW, this came in a News Week article for those who may get confused.


Rams

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sourmash MAR 02, 10:30 PM
What he's saying is, remember what sourmash posted about the oligarchs that came in under Gorbachev's or Yeltsin's Russia and were scamming the Russian people's wealth and resources and who PUTIN EXPELLED WHILE ALLOWING THEM TO KEEP THEIR WEALTH?
Yeah, he's still butt-hurt about that.
blackrams MAR 02, 10:54 PM
Regardless of how you see this, butt hurt or not, a million bucks to take out a dictator is a million bucks. Someone might be interested.
It's not often I say the world would be a better place without someone but, in this case........................ Well, someone has to make their own decisions.
Personally, I'd prefer he stand trial but, that's just me. Put 12 Ukrainians on the jury.

Rams

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Fats MAR 02, 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by blackrams:

Regardless of how you see this, butt hurt or not, a million bucks to take out a dictator is a million bucks. Someone might be interested.
It's not often I say the world would be a better place without someone but, in this case........................ Well, someone has to make their own decisions.
Personally, I'd prefer he stand trial but, that's just me. Put 12 Ukrainians on the jury.

Rams




OK, but how would we be reacting if someone put the same bounty out on a President of the United States for invading some middle east craphole?

I don't agree with anything that I'm aware of with Putin, but someone paying to put a hit on him is just as bad as the nazi stuff IMO. It's just thuggary... Is that a word?
blackrams MAR 02, 11:09 PM

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Originally posted by Fats:


OK, but how would we be reacting if someone put the same bounty out on a President of the United States for invading some middle east craphole?

I don't agree with anything that I'm aware of with Putin, but someone paying to put a hit on him is just as bad as the nazi stuff IMO. It's just thuggary... Is that a word?



I didn't say it was right to offer that money but, it's been offered is all I'm saying. Someone might take him up on the offer.
Do I think Putin is a war criminal, yes.
Do I think he should be removed from power and tried for invading Ukraine and possibly other crimes against humanity and his own country, YES.
We have in the past and still offer rewards for criminals, I guess it really depends on whether or not one considers Putin a criminal.

Edited: Thuggery, if it wasn't, it is now.

Rams

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sourmash MAR 03, 09:20 AM

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Originally posted by Fats:


OK, but how would we be reacting if someone put the same bounty out on a President of the United States for invading some middle east craphole?

I don't agree with anything that I'm aware of with Putin, but someone paying to put a hit on him is just as bad as the nazi stuff IMO. It's just thuggary... Is that a word?



You realize you're supporting Ukrainian neo-NAZI groups right? They carry NAZI flags around.with them.

No, it's not a made up story and has been in the news since 2014 or so. I don't like the Russians so much but in this case I really don't like NATO because it's run by a criminal group.

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sourmash MAR 03, 09:23 AM

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Originally posted by blackrams:


I didn't say it was right to offer that money but, it's been offered is all I'm saying. Someone might take him up on the offer.
Do I think Putin is a war criminal, yes.
Do I think he should be removed from power and tried for invading Ukraine and possibly other crimes against humanity and his own country, YES.
We have in the past and still offer rewards for criminals, I guess it really depends on whether or not one considers Putin a criminal.

Edited: Thuggery, if it wasn't, it is now.

Rams




The US government is known around the world for boasting on TV by saying,
"We came. We saw. He died."
That's the USA.
blackrams MAR 03, 09:32 AM

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Originally posted by sourmash:
I don't like the Russians so much but in this case I really don't like NATO because it's run by a criminal group.




Can we get a show of hands of who believes this.........
I'll buy the part about the dislike of NATO, the rest is pure

Rams

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sourmash MAR 03, 09:41 AM

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Originally posted by blackrams:


Can we get a show of hands of who believes this.........
I'll buy the part about the dislike of NATO, the rest is pure

Rams




You've been wrong on everything so far. Why stop now? Russia isn't anti-White. NATO is anti-White.
sourmash MAR 03, 09:43 AM

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Originally posted by sourmash:


The US government is known around the world for boasting on TV by saying,
"We came. We saw. He died."
That's the USA.



It doesn't get anymore thug than that, now does it? That's the USA. Also, the only country to nuke another country.