🇷🇺The Russian president has set in train the demise of his kleptocratic regime, writes Mark Galeotti.
Here’s why this could be the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin
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Here’s why this could be the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/2…
What is being fought in the cities of Ukraine is not just a war for that country’s freedom and future, it is a conflict that will determine Russia’s, too...
✍️If, unlikely as it seems, Putin is able to take and hold Ukraine, even if only for a while, it will prove a Pyrrhic victory, Galeotti writes
“Putin will simply have re-booted the Cold War only to find himself losing it.
“Ukraine will be a turbulent, truculent conquest, and he cannot expect this to re-legitimise his regime like Crimea”
“Ukraine will be a turbulent, truculent conquest, and he cannot expect this to re-legitimise his regime like Crimea”
“There will be continued casualties, and it will further galvanise the West”
“Nato has twice as many troops as Russia.
“As we are seeing in the unfolding sanctions, the West has a massive economic preponderance”
“As we are seeing in the unfolding sanctions, the West has a massive economic preponderance”
In this new Cold War, Putin’s Russia would have to cope with the three challenges:
❌Isolation
❌Impoverishment
❌Information
❌Isolation
❌Impoverishment
❌Information
“It would be treated as a pariah state, with all but a handful of partners of convenience”
🇨🇳“Of these, China would be the main one”
🇨🇳“Of these, China would be the main one”
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