Putin Is About To Leave Game: Reports On 'Unrest' In Kremlin
- 28.10.2022, 13:49
The moment of truth is coming.
Ukrainian political analyst and officer of the First Separate Special Purpose Brigade named after Ivan Bogun. Ivan Bogun Taras Berezovets said that the influential British publication The Economist has written a very remarkable piece which draws the conclusion that Russian elites have started discussing the future without Putin.
"Everyone understands that Putin has already lost, the British journalists wrote," the expert said on his YouTube channel.
Berezovets stressed that The Economist is a quality publication, not a yellow newspaper, so it cannot be suspected of far-fetched conclusions. On the contrary, its conclusions are always consistent and based on serious sources, including intelligence.
"If the Economist makes such conclusions, believe me, there's no smoke without fire. The paper's journalists are claiming that Putin is about to get out: he will be thrown out or he will use nuclear weapons," said the political analyst.
When Putin realizes that the war by conventional methods is definitively lost, there will come a critical moment when he will try to use nuclear weapons.
This is bound to happen, says Taras Berezovets. "And here is the moment of truth: either he has time to do it and after that he will become a nuclear terrorist and, respectively, a target for the West and for his own entourage, or (bingo!) Russian elites will decide to remove him before he gives an order to use these nuclear weapons," the expert predicted.
The Economist also took a serious look at possible candidates to replace Putin, but before doing so it noted that certain members of the elite had been convincing themselves for some time that Putin could not lose.
This view was finally ruined when the Russian president announced a "partial mobilisation".
"The radical grouping that consists of Kadyrov and Prigozhin, as well as a number of other strongmen, pose the greatest danger if they come to power. Who would oppose them? The Economist journalists have several answers to this question," Berezovets said. "It could be Dmitry Patrushev, the son of Nikolai Patrushev, who is said to be the most likely candidate to replace Putin. Other less likely options are Sergei Kirienko, Sergei Sobyanin and Mikhail Mishustin. Nevertheless, no one doubts that radical groups will clash with the aforementioned personalities. And that will lead Russia into total chaos".