“What comes after Putin is not necessarily, of course, a great deal better, although I would argue that perhaps a successor may not have quite the same sociopathic, ultra nationalistic leanings.”
Aging Putin “can’t last” a further term as Russian president, with defence spending for the war in Ukraine so unsustainably high that it is “impoverishing” the nation, says James Nixey, Russia director at Chatham House.
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