Despite his tyrannical government, Putin’s fragile nutrition is a collapse step.
The bloodthirsty tyrant seized power 25 years ago today but could soon go the way of his pal, deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, if he loses the war with Ukraine.
Putin has been ruling with an iron fist ever since he became president on New Year’s Eve 1999.
The swaggering KGB thug – then 47, now 72 – took over from the weak and booze-soaked Boris Yeltsin.
Although he originally tried to build bridges with the West, Russia carried out in a reversion howling.
Over the next quarter century, it has turned the Global into a dust of mistrust and brought it to the breaking point of war: drawing the closed iron curtain like the darkest days of the Cold War.
It survived an attempted coup and large-scale demonstrations, has been mercilessly to its enemies, has invaded its neighbors, and introduced the largest European war since World War II.
But it is believed that despite his iron care, Putin’s empire still rests on the foundations of sand and can slip through his fingers.
Vlad’s wonderful paranoia at the root of much of what he does is his deep concern to be deposed, dragged the streets and killed, as well as the libly defeated Libyan Gaddafi.
It is a concern that will have been revived after being forced to offer a refuge to the dictator Assad, who leads from Syria in a ray revolution.
By pronouncing that he was moving, Putin’s predecessor, Yeltsin, said: “I’m leaving. I did everything I could. “
Yeltsin Putin to “take care” of Russia.
In response, Putin approached Russia for the first time promising to maintain the freedom of the country.
He said: “The freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, the freedom of the media and property rights, these fundamental principles of a civilized society will be protected by the state.”
But Putin systematically crushed the freedoms of other Russian people when he tried to stay in power.
Vlad has been so successful that in his time there have been eight British prime ministers and five US presidents.
The sovereignty of Russia, its strength, the main Putin project.
When Putin speaks now he is full of resentment and anger and claims Russia has been lied to and disrespected by the West.
In addition to staying in the rate and enriching himself, Foxy leader sought to expand borders to repair Russia as a power.
He has been accused of being like a mafia boss than a president.
The tyrant defended his 25th anniversary on the BBC just a few days ago, that Russia had almost been destroyed when he took over.
He said: “We have retired from the edge of Abysarray. We headed to a general loss of sovereignty. “
Dr. Alan Mendoza, chief executive of the Henry Jackson Society, told The Sun that Putin had begun his likely general reign, but megalomania had been there.
He said, “You don’t know anybody until they assume that position of power. “
Mendoza said Putin spent the first years of his reign to consolidate himself and the oligarchs who had placed him there.
“He advised that there was, first, a band of cruelty, and secondly a feeling of knowing what he was looking to do, in what direction he sought to take the country,” he said.
Putin, Mendoza said, had become “the final arbiter of Russia’s interests” and had been to reveal the tyrannical monster we know today.
“There are people who’ve got large business interests, but they exist purely at Mr. Putin’s pleasure, and anyone who’s gone against him, he’s crushed ruthlessly.”
To reign, Putin relied on friends in the Siloviki, whose secret spy elegance is what he is, compared to the rule of the mafia.
They consider themselves to be Putin’s allies who have an “enduring loyalty” to the dictator.
Many even come from the KGB and spent time in eastern Germany with Putin.
Mendoza said: “They know that they pass together, together, they remain in force together or everyone will remain together. “
But it has been absolutely navigated and Putin’s rule has been threatened beyond two years.
In March, the terror attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow by ISIS-K members killed 145.
The attack was revenge for Russia fighting wars in the Middle East.
In December, pal Bashar al-Assad was swept from power when his army gave up in the face of an offensive by militants.
Vlad sought to make Russia more powerful through the fight in Africa and the Middle East.
But the army can constitute a risk for home reign.
Last year, Putin almost expelled from the force through Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner group after the mercenary introduced a coup d’etat.
Mendoza said: “I think what Prigozhin’s walk told us is that the regime is just a disaster step, a step of the fall, and Putin can have superficial control over intelligence on global businesses if a genuine risk arises For his power, it is not very transparent if he had survived him.
The Russia expert said Putin is now less secure than he was five years ago because he was unable to achieve the decisive victory he pledged to achieve in Ukraine.
“I think the main challenge he faces right now is that he didn’t win the war in Ukraine,” Mendoza said.
“He promised that he would win, and in a sense, for all propaganda and for total narrative, the Russians will know that anything is so long when Ukrainian drones hit Moscow. “
Another point of crisis can face is your succession.
Mendoza says the Russian has enough strength for vigor of life and will continue to weigh any opposition.
Unlike Assad, Putin has an army that is in a position to fight it, as prepared to make Prigozhin opposite.
However, the Russian classic to eliminate a leader is a coup d’etat in the palace.
Mendoza said: “How, of course, if, in your circle, someone makes the decision that she has failed in some way or some form or form.
“A minute, he’s there and a minute, he is not.
“But I think it is less maximum at this time, since the other people who are maximum maximum probably to release the coup are their allies, anyway. “
With the succession of Putin it is not clear, the budding leaders that Jockey by force can turn out to be a long point of crisis.
Most of his allies are of a similar age and Putin has not made clear about founding a dynasty.
Mendoza said: “The Putin children are kept firmly away from the public gaze, and there’s no suggestion that any of them are going to be coming forward to rule with Daddy.”
With a successor unclear, if Putin were to die suddenly a civil war could follow.
He said: “He [the system] is fine in Putin’s non -public force and the perspective of a collapse is very evident.
“If he dies and this is unclear, it might be warfare between various factions who might want to take over.”
Mendoza said that the Putin power will have to continue to make sure that Russia is difficult and wins in Ukraine.
He said: “If he comes away with something that he can say is a victory, then I would expect him to continue along the lines of trying to expand Russia’s borders and find other places maybe Moldova, maybe even having a push into the Baltic States.
“He has for a few years the few years to be the one you know, the restorer of the Soviet Empire. “
Mendoza said Vlad was now relying on foreign policy successes as the domestic economy was weak.
“It is just a great oil value that is worth less economic disaster. “
The former NATO leader, Lord Robertson, told the BBC in 2023 that “megalomaniac” to Putin once as another man.
Robertson said, “The guy who stands next to me in May 2002, right next to me, and said that Ukraine is a sovereign, independent country state that will make its own security decisions, is now the guy who says that [Ukraine] is a country state.
When the pair first met in 2000, the then-Secretary General said Putin wanted to integrate Russia with the defence alliance.
Putin told Robertson: “‘I want to resume relations with NATO. Step by step, but I want to do it.
“And he said, ‘I Russia to be a component of Western Europe. It is our destiny. “
Robertson thinks that Putin’s face replaces can come from the isolation of his inner circle: they have begun their own propaganda.
Robertson said: “Vladimir Putin has very thin skin and a massive ambition for his country.
“The Soviet Union was recognised as the second superpower in the world. Russia can’t make any claims in that direction. And I think that ate away at his ego.”
Mikhail Kasyanov, who Putin’s prime minister from 2000 to 2004 says that Putin has been unrecognizable since he met him.
Kasyanov told Times: “Now he is another user in his behavior, as well as his political attitudes.
“We were building a democratic state and moving closer to Europe and the western world.
“Putin was only pretending to be an adherent of democratic principles. But he remained a KGB agent inside.”
At the top, Putin crushed the opposition, maneuvered around legislation, and faked elections.
After the first 8 years as president of Russia, Putin resigned from the prime minister, to avoid violating the restriction of two consecutive terms to the Kremlin.
A long list of influential Russians died in murky cases of Putin’s reign.
The murders, from poisoning to gunshots, which fell from windows to injuries on an airplane, opened the door to the force of blood.
He even targeted people in Britain, targeting former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia with the deadly nerve agent Novichok in the 2018 Salisbury Poisonings.
A number of politicians, Castro makers and lawyers have also been killed through Vlad’s henchmen in the KGB.
Putin’s most formidable opponent Alexei Navalny, 47, died in February in the strict-regime Polar Wolf jail in the Russian Arctic while serving a 19-year sentence on trumped-up “extremism” charges.
According to the reports, Navalny killed the center with a blow after being forced to spend hours at frozen temperatures.
Experts said the brutal approach is once a “KGB characteristic. “
Putin’s complaint of Putin Vocal and the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, died in August from last year in a jet accident, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
It is Putin safe insurance before launching an uprising in June last year, promising “punishing Russia for a fatal missile attack opposed to one of its education fields in eastern Ukraine.
Putin exploited the uprising as a “death blow” to Russia and “a knife in the face of our people. “
VLADIMIR Putin revealed he has a pair of young sons, in a surprising moment during his 2024 live TV press conference.
The Russian tyrant who liked to watch movies with his “little ones” amid claims that he has a pair of young children with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva’s lover.
Vladimir Putin let slip the biggest hint of his potential offspring so far during a marathon televised question and answer session in Moscow today.
Rumors about secret children surrounded the despot for years after the independent Newshounds had discovered a new future family.
The unverified claims say the ageing tyrant and long-term partner Kabaeva – a woman decades younger than him – actually have boys already.
Ivan, nine and Vladimir, 5, would be the last two additions to the Putin circle of the relative tree.
He has never confirmed these children with the Kremlin officially stating he has just two daughters – Maria Vorontsova, 39, and Katerina Tikhonova, 38.
A third secret child also exists the call of DJ Aulza Rozova, 21, given Vlad through the old Svetlana cleaner Krivonogikh.
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