‘The myth of the chessmaster has been shattered.’ Putin is reeling as key aides and military commanders desert him

‘The myth of the chessmaster has been shattered.’ Putin is reeling as key aides and military commanders desert him

‘The myth of the chessmaster has been shattered.’ Putin is reeling as key aides and military commanders desert him
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According to John Ciorciari, associate professor of public policy and director of the Weiser Diplomacy Centre, Putin has managed to “shatter the myth” of his invincibility as a “grand chess master.” He went on to say that Putin “appears quite isolated from his senior advisors and military leaders,” which is “a dangerous place to be” when fighting a long and tortuous war.

Images have emerged of Putin holding meetings in Moscow on one end of a “absurdly long table” for a “paranoid” Putin, according to body language expert Allan Pease.

“He’s a guy who keeps everyone at a distance,” he added.

Images have emerged of Putin holding meetings in Moscow on one end of a “absurdly long table” for a “paranoid” Putin, according to body language expert Allan Pease.

“He’s a guy who keeps everyone at a distance,” he added.

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According to body language expert Allan Pease, images have emerged of Putin holding meetings in Moscow on one end of a “absurdly long table” for a “paranoid” Putin.

“He’s the type of guy who keeps everyone at a safe distance,” he added.

According to body language expert Allan Pease, images have emerged of Putin holding meetings in Moscow on one end of a “absurdly long table” for a “paranoid” Putin.

“He’s the type of guy who keeps everyone at a safe distance,” he added.

“FSB agents, police officers, state prosecutors — those inside the system — were able to live normal lives.”

This has changed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Mr. Osechkin.

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“For every week and month that this war continues, the possibility of a rebellion by those in the security services grows,” he added.

Mr. Osechkin described how the lifestyle of FSB officers, who have historically been wealthier than the average Russian citizen, has deteriorated as the invasion continues.

He added that a number of FSB agents have been unable to travel to other homes or “take their kids to Disneyland Paris.”

The value of the rouble has plummeted as a result of crippling Western sanctions against Russia, and FSB agents do not want to “return to the Soviet Union.”

According to Mr. Osechkin, the whistleblower used the handle “wearenotallsadists” and first reached out in October 2021.

This comes on the heels of reports that FSB chief and Putin confidant Alexander Bortnikov is preparing to succeed Putin in an FSB-backed coup.

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence claimed on social media that “Russia’s elite is considering removing Putin,” with the provocative tagline “poisoning, sudden illness, accident.”

According to the post, a group of “powerful people” wanted to “restore economic ties with the West” by removing Putin “from power as soon as possible.”

It went on to say that the war in Ukraine had “destroyed” these economic ties, which were critical to Russia’s prosperity.

They claimed that Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service, would take over from Putin.

Putin is a former KGB intelligence officer who rose to become the head of the FSB, which was formed from the KGB.

According to the Ukrainian Chief Directorate of Intelligence, the president blamed Bortnikov for “fatal miscalculations.”

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“Bortnikov and his department were in charge of analysing the mood of the Ukrainian people as well as the capacity of the Ukrainian army,” they said.

According to Dr. Adam Casey of the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, the chances of a coup destabilising Vladimir Putin are much higher than they were even a month ago.

“The Russian military is not performing in the war in the manner that most people expected, and it is performing quite poorly overall,” he said.

“He’s spent a lot of time and effort designing the Russian security apparatus in a way that makes him relatively invulnerable to coups,” Dr Casey told Insider.

“Things that have motivated coups in other places are present,” he added.

 

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