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no centralized authority where Putin to go. This is not a case for Vladimir Putin remaining in power.

It is a case for a little bit of caution when it comes to predicting what happens next in the aftermath

of world-changing cataclysmic events. Vladimir Putin trying to stave that off by ramping up the

amount of brutality he's inflicting in Ukraine simultaneously waiting for the winter to come. The entire Putin strategy has been for months, now that it was clear that he made a miscalculation and going into Ukraine. He thought it was going to be a cakewalk. It was not a cakewalk. Instead, something like 40, 50,000 Russian troops have died in Ukraine, which is an insane number of troops. It also happens to be clear that the Russian military has been exposed to her as a second

rate military. That actually shouldn't be a shock because the truth is that the Russian

military has been a second rate military for pretty much all of human history.

When you talk about its intervention into wars, its main advantage has been just the

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