Putin is in reality just a very powerful mob leader, and those around him owe their prestige to him, corruption is rife in Russia and hidden from western view, until we saw just how poorly their much vaunted military actually was, Its a police state, with as many military units holding the public under control as they have in their whole Army, internal security units control much of most Russians lives, but Putin will one day fall, and the empire he has built will fall with him, dictatorships don't tend to last once the figurehead goes. I think that Russia will be found to have a lot of problems and will need western help to rebuild its self, once its rooted out the corruption,
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