Vladimir Putin went to war in Ukraine nine months ago and it doesn’t look like he’s going away anytime soon. This turns out to be the case even though he loses his entire army after advising them to put tampons on gunshot wounds to prevent bleeding. Because I can’t resist a touch of black comedy, I think the Russian president is calming down with Botox, so that no one can see his tearful face, but on a more serious note, Putin analysts are sitting on a more “vulnerable” level than ever. , so we can expect wild maneuvers from him. This is especially the case because he is afraid of being killed for wasting this war, but also, he simply does not need to admit defeat.
As CNBC reports, September seems to have been a turning point in Putin’s mindset. This is according to Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of R. Politik and non-resident researcher at Carnegie, who said: “Since February 24, Putin has introduced this war, he is more vulnerable than ever. “From there, Stanovaya believes, “I don’t see a situation where I can just be a winner,” and “we can say he’s politically doomed. “In addition, a political scientist noted that Putin would not surrender until Russia was forcibly expelled from Ukraine:
“The very fact that Russia is still fighting this war, despite its obvious defeats in March [when its forces withdrew from Kyiv], indicates that Putin is desperate not to lose. Losing is not an option for him,” Ilya Matveev, a political scientist and educator formerly founded in St. Petersburg, told CNBC on Monday.
How long will this continue? We don’t know, but I’m folding my hands for Ukrainian grandmothers to jump into abandoned Russian tanks while brandishing Molotov cocktails to do homework. Either that or Putin’s troops will ruin his leadership. It is morbid, but so is war.
(On CNBC)