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MayReasonRule

(2,831 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:29 PM Saturday

Limo from 'Putin's car fleet' is blown up in huge blast as troops from paranoid tyrant's honour guard searched for bombs

Source: Newsbreak

ONE of Vladimir Putin’s limousines exploded and caught fire in Moscow as the tyrant orders sewers to be searched and the pat down of his own guards.

An Aurus limousine from Putin’s “official car fleet” blew up in a huge blast on a street just north of Moscow’s FSB secret service headquarters in Lubyanka.

The Aurus Senat limousine from Putin’s official car fleet exploded just north of FSB headquarters[/caption]

Footage showed that the fire which started in the engine of the £275,000 Aurus Senat had spread to the interior of the vehicle.

Read more: https://www.newsbreak.com/healthy-family-projects-316320343/3940637174184-limo-from-putin-s-car-fleet-is-blown-up-in-huge-blast-as-troops-from-paranoid-tyrant-s-honour-guard-searched-for-bombs





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Limo from 'Putin's car fleet' is blown up in huge blast as troops from paranoid tyrant's honour guard searched for bombs (Original Post) MayReasonRule Saturday OP
Did they guess wrong about where he would be? birdographer Saturday #1
Nope. They let him know they can tag him at their will. The next one will not be a cluing in. marble falls Sunday #26
Darn... they missed. Eugene Saturday #2
This has got to freak Putin out. Safe as Milk Sunday #27
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy NEOBuckeye Sunday #33
Practice makes perfect. Next time 😝 IrishBubbaLiberal Saturday #3
We Now Go To Our On The Scene Correspondent... MayReasonRule Saturday #4
There are good people in Russia trying to end the Putin insanity Mysterian Saturday #5
My new screen saver ... marble falls Saturday #6
False flag? lonely bird Saturday #7
Naw orangecrush Sunday #22
I wonder, too. murielm99 Sunday #38
Well now, let this asshole sit, stew, and wonder if bluestarone Saturday #8
You are not paranoid if someone is really after you. LisaL Saturday #9
LOL no kidding cadoman Sunday #24
Lol! Kaleva Sunday #32
The Russian People CitizenZero Saturday #10
I'm sure his "honour" guard enjoys being "under suspicion." Grokenstein Saturday #11
Not many tyrants die peacefully in their sleep from old age Bluetus Saturday #12
And Cogent! If you're (life forbid) in a dementia haze you won't be able to savor it. electric_blue68 Saturday #13
Unfortunately, many do live to old age. yardwork Sunday #37
How unfortunate............. that Putin wasn't in it. cstanleytech Saturday #14
Are they sure it wasn't a Tesla in disguise? Wicked Blue Saturday #15
Coming here to post something just like this! drmeow Saturday #16
Well, the Senat Limousine IS a hybrid Emrys Saturday #19
You think he might go out and play some more..............his paranoia is now at 10............ turbinetree Saturday #17
The SZRU is getting closer Tarc Saturday #18
Locking. newsbreak is not a MSM source. GP6971 Sunday #20
"Don't get mad, get Vlad." He is just like the trash bag. n/t valleyrogue Sunday #21
Putin on the blitz. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sunday #23
Video of the action Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday #25
Breaking out in song orangecrush Sunday #28
Vlad should order armored up Teslers. Duncanpup Sunday #29
The fire was inside the limo, so unless the person was as quick as lightening, they would be doomed. riversedge Sunday #31
I imagine anyone NEAR Putin physically would fear for their lives. riversedge Sunday #30
NOT JOKING HERE: I personally witnessed three russian cars exploding. DetlefK Sunday #34
..do golf carts ever explode?? thomski64 Sunday #35
If this was an operation of blue-wave Sunday #36

marble falls

(64,271 posts)
26. Nope. They let him know they can tag him at their will. The next one will not be a cluing in.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:40 AM
Sunday

Safe as Milk

(84 posts)
27. This has got to freak Putin out.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:41 AM
Sunday

Putin is now faced with immediate terror. This is good. He'll become more erratic.

NEOBuckeye

(2,867 posts)
33. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 04:02 AM
Sunday

He's already paranoid, and probably will only become more so after this. And as you say, he'll become more erratic -- and make more strategic blunders as a result. These actions will only further damage the image of his power and authority.

IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,146 posts)
3. Practice makes perfect. Next time 😝
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:41 PM
Saturday

Hitler also had numerous attempts on his own vile dictator body

murielm99

(31,800 posts)
38. I wonder, too.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 06:19 PM
Sunday

Remember the apartment bombings, right at the beginning of Putin's reign? He may have done that himself. I don't doubt that he is a terrorist.

bluestarone

(19,321 posts)
8. Well now, let this asshole sit, stew, and wonder if
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 05:30 PM
Saturday

they will succeed next time. (like the judges and others trying to stop TSF here do)

CitizenZero

(636 posts)
10. The Russian People
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:00 PM
Saturday

The Russian people deserve democracy. There are many good people in Russia that are opposed to Putin and want to be free. We failed to help Russia become a lawful and proper democracy after the Soviet Union fell. That was a mistake. Anyway, I wish that Navalny were still alive to see this. I stand in solidarity with any Russians that want democracy and an end to the Putin regime.

Grokenstein

(5,941 posts)
11. I'm sure his "honour" guard enjoys being "under suspicion."
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:03 PM
Saturday

S'matter, Pootie-Poot? Your own people getting tired of the meat grinder?

Bluetus

(836 posts)
12. Not many tyrants die peacefully in their sleep from old age
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:11 PM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Mar 29, 2025, 07:37 PM - Edit history (1)

They aren't all assassinated or stumble out a 20-story window, but it is remarkable how few of them pass gently.
https://www.livescience.com/41224-how-dictators-die.html

I hope to still be walking this planet when it is time for Putin, Trump, and Musk to go.

electric_blue68

(20,538 posts)
13. And Cogent! If you're (life forbid) in a dementia haze you won't be able to savor it.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:17 PM
Saturday

Always make your wishes specific when invoking The Universe! 👍🙂

yardwork

(66,005 posts)
37. Unfortunately, many do live to old age.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:35 AM
Sunday

In the list you linked, most of the dictators lived into their 70s and 80s - well beyond average life expectancy in their countries at their times.

Hitler and Mussolini were unusual because they started a world war and then lost. It's more strategic not to do that. Mao, Franco, Idi Amin, Castro, many others just settled into their own countries, ruled with cruelty and fear and lived in wealth until they died.

Putin might be leaning into starting a world war, though. Wars create instability. He should have taken the Franco route.

Emrys

(8,498 posts)
19. Well, the Senat Limousine IS a hybrid
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 11:02 PM
Saturday

It packs a lithium-ion battery which can drive the car if the main engine's not available for some reason, and includes a battery heater for cold weather: https://www.aluminas.ru/en/media/news/the_senate_and_king_cold_northern_test_car_aurus/

turbinetree

(25,963 posts)
17. You think he might go out and play some more..............his paranoia is now at 10............
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 09:07 PM
Saturday

I wonder if he is going to make someone test the food...............

riversedge

(74,709 posts)
31. The fire was inside the limo, so unless the person was as quick as lightening, they would be doomed.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 03:07 AM
Sunday

DetlefK

(16,617 posts)
34. NOT JOKING HERE: I personally witnessed three russian cars exploding.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 04:02 AM
Sunday
"Oh, your car has a problem? We don't need a car-repair-shop. We'll get the boys together, have some Vodka, we're gonna fix it, it's gonna be fun."

I used to live in a neighborhood with russian neighbors and over the years I witnessed THREE CARS EXPLODE AND BURN OUT because these guys took the engine apart in a parking-space and then failed to properly put it back together.
Years later I eventually told this anecdote to a russian guy. To my surprise he confirmed that Russians love tinkering with cars and embarassedly admitted that some explode afterwards, because they aren't screwed tight back together.

blue-wave

(4,540 posts)
36. If this was an operation of
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:09 AM
Sunday

the Ukrainian Intelligence Services, I want them on my side. This is what big balls really looks like Musk, not taking away grandma's social security check.

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