Putin mulls last-ditch with Kremlin reshuffle and goes underground amidst Iran threat | John Foreman
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“There are people saying one of the lessons the Kremlin has reiterated to it is the strength of American air power with what happened against the Ayatollah in Tehran and what happened to Maduro in Venezuela…maybe that fed Putin’s own paranoia.”
Putin’s disappearance from the political stage after Iran war ruins his last-ditch attempt to sort Russia-Ukraine negotiations, says former UK defence attache to Moscow and Kyiv John Foreman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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“The conditions have not been set on the ground for Putin to realise he is not going to win.”
“The war is not going in any sense in Russia’s way.”
“Ukraine has said, ‘Right, if you want to do a pincer movement, you have to go through the fields, which makes you very vulnerable, and we will take you out.’”
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“The Ukrainians have a way of fighting back to scorch his economy.”