For those who haven't figured it out....for a brief period in the 1990s of Russia....they tried to run from the Soviet era to the 'future', with a chaos-type motivation to keep people focused.
Economics were crapped-up. The Chechen War (multiple) played out. The Oligarch crowd were always in turmoil and competing against each other. Elections were held to satisfy the public, but unqualified people ended up in positions of authority. Tax evasion was practiced by literally everyone. Most Russians would say by the end of the era.....the only obvious 'fix' would be to bring in a thug to micromanage things in one precise way.
So enters Putin.
The 'medicine' taken over 2000? For about every negative....there's two positives....at least in the minds of most average Russians.
I suspect if you sat in a pub with a hundred Russians....asking who should take over once Putin passes on...the vast majority will say a carbon copy of Putin. Whether one exists or not? Unknown.
For this reason, I'm not really buying into the strategy of bringing Russia to some downfall or collapse. I do agree....embarking on this adventure into Ukraine was awful stupid, because it calculated that they were easily defeated in a week or two. Putin believed the assessment, and sought the invasion as his crowning 'touch' (the climax of his career).
So here we are....almost a year later.....into the ten-day war.
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