According to a prominent political scientist, Vladimir Putin will only be overthrown by a coup d’état.
According to Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Russian Center for Post-Industrial Societal Research, this is the only prospect of an end to the “meat grinder war” in Ukraine.
This comes as another Putin expert says the warmonger has no remaining means of escaping into exile, despite rumors that his henchmen have launched what has come to be known as Operation Noah’s Ark to find him and his closest cronies a safe haven.
“I believe the only chance to change the situation is some kind of palace coup – once the elite really understands that Putin is leading them into an impasse,” Inozemtsev said.
According to a Kremlin expert, the only chance of an end to the “meat grinder war” in Ukraine is a coup d’état against Putin. Putin is pictured at the Moscow Kremlin on December 20
The war in Ukraine will only end if Putin is ousted in a palace coup, said Vladislav Inozemtsev (pictured), an expert on Russian political science
“But whether it’s going to happen or not, or when… is impossible to predict.’
Such a coup would involve Putin’s closest aides or guards.
Hopes of a mass uprising to overthrow Putin are lost, he said.
Russian society “is completely inert – and the Kremlin shouldn’t expect any problems”.
There were no major protests – “so far I don’t see a desire to end the war,” he said.
Inozemtsev, who now lives in Washington, claims that contrary to some Western forecasts, Putin can raid Russia’s economy to keep the war going for at least two more years and that he could mobilize a million men in total.
“Putin has great potential to fund the war,” he told Zerkalo’s website.
“Reserves and the possibility of borrowing on the Russian domestic market give him infinite money, and he will not have problems with the budget either in the coming year or in 2024.”
The war will certainly last at least until [next] Summer, depending on what successes or failures will be on the front line in early spring.
“As for the Ukrainian army, I am sure that it is determined to repel Russian attacks.
“Ukraine is constantly arming itself with Western weapons and ammunition, and this process is evolving fairly steadily.
“So I think this is the meat grinder situation that’s going to continue for a long time.
“Indeed, Russia will suffer great losses, but as Ukrainian officials rightly say, Moscow has the capacity to mobilize up to a million men. That’s right.’
Experts warn that such a Putin vs. Putin (pictured in the Kremlin, December 20) would involve his closest aides or guards. But all hopes of a mass uprising to overthrow Putin were lost
Putin’s former speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov – now a critic – said Putin is now hyperactive compared to his reclusive style during the Covid pandemic.
Despite Russia being hit again by Covid – and the flu – he is now active because “he has other things to worry about…
“There are now much scarier enemies [like] first of all the Ukrainian armed forces and the collective West, NATO.
“He is forced to become more active. The situation is clearly not developing as desired.’
He said, “This is Putin’s last chance and he’s trying to get the maximum out of it.”
But Gallyamov told interviewer Yevgenia Albats that a “power vacuum is forming” and that his circle has sought a “rainy day” plan for him and his closest people to flee Russia if necessary.
They have sought refuge in China, Venezuela and Argentina, he said.
According to experts, the war will last at least until next summer. Putin is pictured in Minsk, Belarus on December 19
Kremlin expert Valery Solovey (pictured) said he saw no viable way out for Putin to go into exile in another country
But another Putin expert Valery Solovey – a former professor at the prestigious Moscow Institute of International Relations [MGIMO]a training school for spies and diplomats – said those plans and another planned loophole in Israel, the Central African Republic and an unnamed European country were now hopeless for the Kremlin leader.
“Israel was acceptable before February 24th [when the war started],’ he said.
“Now they have no destination country.
“There is no place to hide, it just doesn’t exist on the planet because February 24th changed the situation.
“And that’s why the political establishment is very nervous, especially those in charge of the military and political parts of the operation.
“They would have been willing to take a deal — there were rumours,” he said.
But now there was no foreign escape for Putin and his team.