Is this the thing that truly, finally dooms Putin? Twenty years’ worth of Putin outliving his supposed demise should give us pause.
After a dramatic Ukrainian offensive brought news over the weekend of a haphazard retreat of Russian forces from the Kharkiv front, pundits, politicians, intelligence analysts, and even well-read experts began speculating anew that Vladimir Putin’s days as Russian autocrat may soon be numbered.
In an assessment in Foreign Policy, Mark Lawrence Schrad pours some cold water on these optimistic takes. He writes: Is this the thing that truly, finally dooms Putin? Only time will tell. But 20 years’ worth of Putin outliving his supposed demise should give us pause. He has survived economic depression, international isolation, mismanagement of a deadly pandemic, botched terrorist responses, and an intelligence fiasco that led Russia into a bungled war—and he’s still here.
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