That is less possible than overthrow him. That’s a Russian tradition. They fear to tell the boss the truth, but one day they might come with a weapon and escort him either to the grave or to retirement.
Kozyrev explains the fear of telling the truth to Putin and the potential consequences.
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But to keep sanctions before Russia becomes a normal country, a country to which you can rely to follow the rules, very simple rules. Otherwise, it will repeat itself every two, three years down the road.
He will try to intimidate the West and imitate Ukrainians. And unfortunately, he kind of succeeds to have initiative, military initiative, while NATO seems to be too cautious to me.
He does not want to recognize it himself, I think. And, definitely, he does not want Russian people to understand what is happening.
It is less possible than overthrow him. That’s Russian tradition. They fear to tell the boss the truth, but one day they might come with a weapon and escort him either to the grave or to retirement.