Inside Putin’s crumbling empire as he scrambles to regain his footing

As Putin’s war plans, and national and international standing, continue to be revealed, the dictator is torn between his natural instinct to hide, and his desire to shore-up his grip on power 🔎 michael2day looks inside Putin’s crumbling empire

But the nature of the latest blow to Putin – a self-inflicted wound, given his patronage of the vicious mercenary group – accentuates the humiliation he has suffered.

But sending tens or even hundreds of thousands more Russians to their deaths in eastern Ukraine could weaken his political position even further.

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