Posted on 10/07/2022 4:33:55 PM PDT by libh8er
…. Putin's more than 22 years as a mob boss running a mafia state from Moscow have seen him descend from reformer and uneasy ally to tyrant and global pariah.
Once upon a time he was pictured posing outside Downing Street with Tony Blair and riding in a golf cart with US President George W. Bush.
But now paranoid and delusional Vlad remains holed up in the bubble-like environment of the Kremlin as he turns 70.
Furiously ranting about the West in rambling speeches and wildly swinging his nuclear sabre, Putin's long cultivated image as a cold and calculating strongman has been shot to pieces.
Bloated, isolated, and rumoured to be in poor health - just how long can Russia's war-mad leader cling to power as tough sanctions hobble the economy and embarrassing failures mount on the frontline?
Professor Anthony Glees, from the University of Buckingham, told The Sun Online he believes Putin could be ousted from power - and the tyrant might not even live to turn 71.
"These things can often happen very quickly," he told The Sun Online.
Putin is reportedly terrified of the possibility that he could be ousted and then killed - being obsessed with what happened to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011…… … He went on that Putin's early leadership saw him "con" the West into thinking he was anything but an "evil, murderous despot".
"Beneath his mask, I don't believe Putin the man ever changed," said Professor Glees.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
To be fair, aren’t all gov’ts mafias? What is the difference?
MI6 this time, or more pentagon propaganda bots.
He can run circles around Biden. But, we all know Biden is not POTUS nor running the show.
Huh?
Just like the Mafia putting out a false front man to take the fall.
How many wars are the West's war-mad leaders on the hook for.
Good grief. The pro-Ukrainian propaganda is getting as stupid as the pro covid vaccine crapola.
Rip van?
Putin is reportedly terrified of the possibility that he could be ousted and then killed - being obsessed with what happened to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011
Hung upside down at a gas station ala Mussolini
Can you please translate that to english?
There is no such thing as news anymore, just insane opinion pieces masquerading as news.
Probably the most ignorant and stupid headline this week Written by an idiot.
Just because it is anti-Putin doesn’t necessarily mean it is pro Ukraine.
“Putin is reportedly terrified of the possibility that he could be ousted and then killed...”
Reported by whom?
I prefer real news to this pablum.
All this loose talk about assassination and nuclear war is reckless.
Fair point!
Putin is not wrong about the WEF, et. al.
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