For someone who's going out of their way to create the airs about themselves that they don't give a pigeon's dropping about what others (certainly international rivals) think of him, Putin does seem to have invested waaay too much effort and funds into creating a network of his own propaganda mouthpieces around the English-speaking Internet outlets
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The type of response the West is prepared to deliver to all that, and its willingness to do certain sacrifices for the sake of making an actual point that would really resonate with Russia, is entirely up to them.
I wouldn't hold my breath for anything more than the empty platitudes we've gotten so far.
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"No, that's not an opinion, it's a fact! If another house can seize one of our own and hold him captive with impunity, we are no longer a house to be feared." -- Tywin Lannister
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"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!" -- Galadriel
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Not saying Putin's days being numbered is a given fact, probably not gonna be anytime soon. But it's definitely not the winning situation he might be hoping for.
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Whether that's truly a long-term plan or he really makes stuff up as he goes and then goes out of his way to present it as if it's part of a grand plan of some sorts, is another thing. He's pushing that sort of narrative, so that warrants the respective references.
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But Russia will never fall to Northern Korea level because 1) higher inner resources, 2) limited lifespan of Putin. And... when Putin die West will get 100 millions of people filled by hatred and distrust.
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