RUSSIA will collapse into potentially nuclear armed warring mini-states as a result of Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, a former CIA analyst has grimly predicted. The vast country has been fatally weakened by the tyrant’s recklessness and he is likely to be killed on the verge of the tumultuous events that will engulf it in the coming years, argues Paul Goble. The number of Russian dead is approaching 200,000, according to Ukraine's defence ministry, while an estimated £17 billion worth of equipment has been lost. In the wake of the disastrous defeats, attention has now focused on what happens...