To the time, explains Pieter Lagrou again, “Three and a half million men have left the battlefield to return home, with their weapons“. From there to imagine that such a situation could happen again here… “We can clearly see that the State’s ability to mobilize men to go and fight is a very, very risky bet. The overthrow of Putin (now forced to mobilize reserve) still seems less unimaginable today than yesterday“, adds the historian.
That said, for the journalist Isabelle Mandraud, author of the book “Putin, the strategy of disorder until war”, there are not really tangible elements that would announce the fall of the master of the Kremlin. “There are no signs of disaffection among diplomats, nor among the military nor in the high ranks of security… On the other hand, what we are seeing is a divorce with part of society Russian. With these terrible images of men fleeing the country by all means. There is therefore a dichotomy: on the one hand, we have a part of Russian society which expresses its deep disagreement with the choices of Vladimir Putin… but for the moment there is no division at all within the power “.
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