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18 plus gamblerware.org It's Tuesday, the 30th of June. Look at that. We have made it to the end of yet another month.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears, on the world stage.

And what a stage it is. Now, here at the PDB, we thought we'd try

something just a bit different over the next couple of days, sort of a respite from the chaos of the

Iran conflict, the grinding brutality of the Ukraine conflict, and the other important events

that typically make up the news cycle. Instead of focusing on the day's headlines

over the next couple of days, we're stepping back from that daily news cycle, just again for a short

while, to take a closer look at some of the most important geopolitical challenges currently facing the

world. Think of it as a series of intelligence briefings, examining the major players, the underlying dynamics, and the questions that don't always fit neatly into a traditional daily news program.

And for today, well, today we're starting off with a question about a key world leader that's been asked repeatedly now for more than two decades.

And that question is, could

Vladimir Putin ever be overthrown? It's a question that tends to resurface whenever Russia

faces a crisis, after military setbacks in Ukraine, or after economic sanctions, or following

political unrest. And perhaps most notably, it was asked after Wagner Group Chief of Genni Progosion

launched his short-lived march toward Moscow back in 2023,

which of course ended with Progosion mysteriously dying in a plane explosion.

It's hard to imagine who could have orchestrated that.

Each time, after each crisis, speculation follows.

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