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Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia
- 0dayman 5mo ago[flagged]
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- thunderbong 5mo agoThis isn't Reddit
- yepyoukno 5mo agoI don’t mean to encourage anyone though they are known to use body doubles, AI, and psyops.
- bigyabai 5mo ago> they are known to use body doubles Known by who? The body double theory is old hat, and poorly supported by evidence.
- yepyoukno 5mo agoI’m really not trying to sell this one, though a quick google turned up a Newsweek article about the Japanese weighing in. Otherwise, didn’t they round up a bunch of doubles when the Ukraine war broke out? that recent Putin Judo practice video was kind of strange. I’m no fan, though I’m pretty sure Putin was a real badass in his day and that guy looked kind of lacking. We all get old!
- hiccuphippo 5mo agoIn this hypothetical scenario, who gets to decide how the body double should act or what decisions he takes? And Why wouldn't they just take the power themselves?
- apothegm 5mo agoThe latter because as soon as it’s know Putin isn’t there a power vacuum is evident and a broader struggle for power ensues. Then whoever wins has to establish legitimacy. Whereas a few people in agreement about how to direct a widely-recognized figurehead can hang on to power indefinitely and without contention (the latter being potentially costly along many dimensions).
- chistev 5mo agoI've heard this about a hundred times over the years.
- JimBlackwood 5mo agoI think the same every time I read this, but at one point it has to give, right? Nothing is going well and economically the population is feeling it. I imagine this can’t go on much longer.
- torben-friis 5mo agoAnecdotally, the people I know who recently visited Moscow and St Petersburg claim they're not seeing significant struggle, and definitely not the 'risk your life for violent revolution' type of issues.
- armada651 5mo agoMoscow and St Petersburg will be the absolute last places where you will see people struggle precisely because Putin knows it's important to keep those cities prosperous even if it's at the cost of people living outside of the major cities.
- torben-friis 5mo agoSure, but that's already 20% of population counting metro area. Add other well off areas, university towns, upper class in small towns, etc. and it doesn't seem to be looking super bad in the short term for them.
- enoint 5mo agoThe enlistment bonuses tell that story: from St Petersburg, you get 10x the bonus compared to Dagestan.
- victorbjorklund 5mo agoBecause they are rich people who are in the rich parts of the richest cities. I’m sure if you walked the streets of Moscow in 1988 you wouldn’t see any significant struggle among the elite.
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- ministryof22 5mo agoThis reminds of the EU's 29472th sanction package, that this time will 100% put Russia to its knees. And the competing narratives that Russia is going to invade us all, but at the same time, is being defeated.
- drakedrepar 5mo agoThe article is paywalled
- tim333 5mo agohttps://archive.ph/OraDr https://archive.ph/OraDr
- cosmicgadget 5mo agoAlso paywalled unless I am bad at internet.
- timbit42 5mo agoDoesn't work. Only shows a few lines.
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- tim333 5mo agoSorry. Maybe this and option 4 https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/05/06/vladimir-putin-is-losing-his-grip-on-russia https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.economi...
- timbit42 5mo agoYes, but now the archive.ph link you posted is working. It looks like they may have two paywalls, one when first posted and one for x hours later. Just a theory. Seems odd.
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- junaru 5mo agoAs a westerner i'm constantly bombarded with > China is failing > Russia is done for > X is over There are entire youtube channels dedicated to these circlejerks and they are forced into my recommendations all while we loose freedoms to 'fight foreign propoganda'.
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- buran77 5mo agoAge and health issues can erode someone's power. But news like this are a dime a dozen. They might be right but this is propaganda 101. Eventually the prediction comes true and the news outlet can pin a medal to their chest. Every once in a while they get to throw one about the enemy or any world leader out into the world and see if it sticks. Here's the Economist being super worried about Xi's grip on power [1]. [1] https://www.economist.com/china/2025/07/20/xi-jinping-is-growing-more-elusive https://www.economist.com/china/2025/07/20/xi-jinping-is-gro...
- OutOfHere 5mo agoThe faster the world can go green, the faster Russia can collapse economically. It is the West that is holding this back by delaying global greenification. Imagine a world where the West was an exporter of green energy. The only other way I know to weaken Russia, if only temporarily, is by funding Ukrainian drones targeting its fuel infra.
- lifestyleguru 5mo agoThe more Russians are desperate the more coarse their propaganda is. Basically most nationalistic and even patriotic movements in Europe are fuelled by Russia, the closer to their borders the more it is true.
- selivanovp 5mo agoIt's ironic that Economist keeps pushing this propaganda year after year, but it's UK that has worse and worse performing PM's, but every single one of them keep dreaming not about their own country and economy, but how to topple Putin.
- FlacksonFive 5mo agoThis article was written by a guest author, and The Economist has plenty negative to say about the current state of UK affairs.
- cosmicgadget 5mo agoWriting an article is not an attempt to depose someone. There are many, many articles on the front page of this publication that are not about Russia, so clearly "every single one of them" isn't even hyperbolically true. Writing an article about the problems of a foreign nation when your own nation has problems isn't - and has never been - ironic.
- rsynnott 5mo agoI mean, the Economist has been... pretty sceptical of the UK's behaviour for a long time. It was extremely critical of Brexit, for instance. In 2017 and 2019 it endorsed the _Liberal Democrats_, for goodness sake.
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- tim333 5mo agohttps://archive.ph/OraDr https://archive.ph/OraDr
- torben-friis 5mo agonot working for me. Just see the first three lines.