It looks like what are left of his advisors have to walk a tight rope: Be accurate enough to not look incompetent but also don't contradict his (putin's) notio

It looks like what are left of his advisors have to walk a tight rope: Be accurate enough to not look incompetent but also don't contradict his (putin's) notion of the situation. It's the classical case of surrounding yourself with sycophants and people who always defer and don't have a spine to push back because those who dared push back end up arrested or poisoned, etc.