Russia is “the sick man of Europe”.
It is sinking into a national catastrophe, and the collapse that is looming risks resembling, in its scale, the turmoil of 1917. After having crushed all the counter-powers in twenty years, Vladimir Putin, its strong man (who is no longer really), embarked on a military adventure that only accelerated the moral disaster in which the country was already bathed, undermined by corruption and arbitrariness.
Above all, it revealed that the reordering of the state, of which Putin prided himself, had not taken place, and that the army was not this modern and renovated tool that he believed he had rebuilt.
“Everything is rotten, Putin did nothing, they stole everything and they are going to drown together”,
launches a relative of the regime to his friend oligarch during a conversation incredibly revealing of the state of decay, intercepted at the beginning of the year by Western intelligence services.
In this respect, the war in Ukraine has brought down the masks…
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