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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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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you happen to remember the name of it? It sounds good.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do you avoid a coup by the oligarchs?

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

I would listen to the international experts that i gathered and generally follow their recommendations on how to do that

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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."

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 3 months ago

If I just magically appeared and everyone knows it was magic, I could claim to be God and get even more power.

Obviously stop the war but after that: Step one, thorough cleaning of public offices. Step two MRUSSRA hats. Step three, no profits.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Put all money into conquering pluto while trying to make it a planet again

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

United Soviet Socialist States of the Kuiper Belt

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Wow, this is my one of my least favorite reincarnation isekai yet

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Try and do what Trotsky wanted to do before Stalin took the reigns.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] lemmysarius@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] AE5NE@lemmy.radio 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yeah, “the west” is going to invade 🙄

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 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 3 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)

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Put most of my hoarded billions $ into funding education in Russia -and funding a legitimate socialist party in America.🇺🇸

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I think hiring more people from North Korea, increase policing for conscription avoidance and spend a lot on industrial policies to encourage arms production. Mjeh, basically what they're already doing.

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