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‘Putin must lose’: Zelenskiy arrives in US to try to save $61bn Ukraine aid package
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Putins popularity numbers crashed like 20% when he announced mobilisation before it was clear that Moscow wouldn't have very many people mobilized from it. Putin can't use Russia's manpower without becoming extremely unpopular. And if he becomes unpopular, especially among the rich in Moscow, coups are much more likely.
Plus, Ukraine is commonly seeing loss ratios of 3:1 or more.
Which does not really count, because there are no real elections in Russia
That is something I really hope. Just some pissed oligarch with some true love for mother russia putting a bullet into Putins head and finally end him. But this is tied to a major mobilization, some balls and we don't know if Putin's successor will be better or worse.
I wonder if the war would actually end and if Russia would cede territory if/when Putin dies and Ukraine is still fighting? Has the Russian military machine gained so much momentum that no matter who takes over after Putin is gone, they'll just continue the war out of fear of looking weak? I think there's this notion that the only thing still driving this war is Putin himself, but it seems like Russia has transitioned to a permanent wartime economy, I doubt they could just turn on a dime when Putin isn't there anymore. Potentially the country could devolve into a civil war and the occupied territories will just slip out of their grasp and back into Ukraine's, but that's not a certainty.
Putin is convinced that internal unrest is the biggest threat to his rule. He doesn't fear bad polling results, he fears massive civilian unrest.