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If that fraction is FSB management, why not? Rumor is, there is enormous pressure on Putin to cede power to Patrushev son. This may be part if a plan to force
by sam_lowry_ 4y ago
If that fraction is FSB management, why not?
Rumor is, there is enormous pressure on Putin to cede power to Patrushev son.
This may be part if a plan to force him into quitting
- int_19h 4y agoI can't help but recall that Igor Strelkov - the guy who, by his own admission, "started the war" (back in 2014, by occupying Slavyansk and Kramatorsk) - is ex-FSB, and ostensibly still very well connected there. And he is very much a hardliner wrt continuing the war, even if it means taking on NATO.
- petre 4y agoPatrushev is worse than Putin. It was possibly him who talked Putin into starting this war.
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoNot sure about it. There was a video of the Russian Security Council days before the war when Patrushev looked lost and uninformed. See http://www.kremlin.ru/events/security-council/67825/videos http://www.kremlin.ru/events/security-council/67825/videos around 1:32