'as Russia feels soaring Ukraine war pressure
Presumably Putin thinks the days of the Russian federation are as numbered as the USSR imploded on the fall of the Burlin wall.
HIUS healthy is fading fast, and he has no obvious successor! If Putin dies, as seems increasingly likely, what will happen to Russia? Your comments appreciated.
Yet for all that inevitability, Putin’s next term as president has been the focus of surprisingly little discussion, including what it is likely to mean both inside and outside Russia. And that’s all the more surprising given that Putin’s regime is arguably more destabilized now than it’s ever been, with little end in sight for Russia’s growing economic troubles or the spiraling deaths on the battlefields of Ukraine. Since last summer alone, Russia has seen a sudden mutiny, led by a renegade militia that nearly marched on Moscow; rampaging anti-Semitic riots, with security services nowhere to be found; and protests erupt in normally placid places like Bashkortostan.
No one can say what these events portend. But it’s clear that the war in Ukraine has helped make Russia’s domestic situation more unstable than it’s been in decades, and all kinds of potential future scenarios are no longer unthinkable.
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