Posted on 11/04/2022 3:38:56 PM PDT by dennisw
VLADIMIR Putin is losing grip on power and his regime faces total collapse as "predators" circle around due to his disastrous handling of the war in Ukraine, claims a KGB expert.
Putin can no longer keep at bay competing power groups that want to take over the Kremlin.
The Russian investigative journalist said Putin faced a "lunch of the predators" and a "war of all against all" in his inner circle.
More than two decades ago Albats wrote The State within a State about how the Soviet-era KGB secret service had taken control of the new Russia.
Now she sees Putin - a former KGB spy - losing his ability to control the powerbrokers because of his seriously weakened political state by his blunders in Ukraine.
“The fight has begun inside the very top echelons of Russian power,” she told independent Russian TV channel Rain.
“We are witnessing the lunch of the predators.
“What’s happening now is a key manifestation of breakdown within the power [structures].
“And of the fact that Putin can no longer act as mediator between various interest groups - that the war of all against all has begun….”
Albats - forced to flee Russia in September after being declared a “foreign agent” - said: "And I want to hope this will crash this inhumane regime, [which is] killing people in Ukraine and its own mobilised people in Russia.
“And Putin can no longer serve as a mediator, which is his key function. Therefore, he [Putin] is next.”
She pointed to a number of recent incidents showing Putin’s real power seeping away.
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Putin studied law for his first degree but went immediately into the KGB where he claims to have retired as a lieutenant colonel and in time became head of the KGB’s replacement agency, the FSB.
I don’t think he was ever a lawyer.
Economics degree.
UK tabloids like The Sun and The Daily Fail are GREAT at tiddies and pert bums.
That was the doctorate in 1997, long after the KGB and when he was very powerful politically and months before he was head of the FSB.
Good info.
Thanks!
Details help.
Months ago stories said Xi was ready to fall and later that Putin was on the brink from disgruntled rebels in Russia. Earlier stories said Iran’s fidgety younger mobs were protesting for more Western makeup and fashions.
If only we knew what was really going on.
Wasn’t there a photo of Putler caught picking his nose in public?
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Should Putin become too sick to lead or dies, the next in line will not have Putin's power. He will have the support of everyone who supported Putin. It will just disrupt and slow down the Russian goal of CCCP 2.0, not stop it.
Probably not the last time.
Probably not the last time.
Could not happen to a better kgb commie totalitarian.
Ultimately it all ends this way for them over there. Save Gorby but hes still doing his global commie thing under the Green Cross.
“More than two decades ago Albats wrote The State within a State about how the Soviet-era KGB secret service had taken control of the new Russia.”
Horrible. Just imagine living somewhere that the secret services and intel community has taken control of the government. /s
No way. Sitting there in Dresden, Putin was like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. Hanging from the ceiling by a wire, avoiding the lasers, stealing the secrets to the Coca Cola formula.... killing anyone who got in his way.
And you say he was just another commissioned functionary in an office in Dresden, deep in East Germany?
Lol
Reminds me of the Globe
He was pretty much an unremarkable nobody in the KGB.
Very few here realize he can be voted out
Fat chance considering he enjoys mid 80s approval there as does his war
From polls like Pew not just domestic Ruzzia lol polls
Now if this new war effort beyond limited war fails then it’s going to come down those numbers
Russia will not lose a war against Ukraine
Believing that is for those who believe the bunny rabbit actually does leave chocolate eggs Easter morning
Sort of like a Austrian art student , Corsican artillery officer, and Georgian bank robber. Great upward mobility seems to depend on the time and the place.
He is actually connected to some pretty brutal work and he was not a nobody.
He was supplying weapons to terrorists in Germany who were assassinating Americans and blowing up American buildings and conducting those operations against other Europeans.
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