that it works for majority of russians. but many people buy it. there was an anecdote in the f.t., that sergey lavrov who was told about the invasion only two hours before, was asked who is advising vladimir putin and he said, i could tell you, he has three main visors, peter the great catherine the great and the fourth one is stalin. at the end of the day, do you think his days are numbered in any meaningful sense? you know, actually, the sources in moscow, i believe, right after prigozhin s mutiny sta started telling me that they used to be sure that his situation is very stable and he might be there for years to come and they think that probably one year at least. because the situation is the system is shaking.
russian history. he has created some kind of imaginary inquire and he is trying to impose that point of view and actually it works for so many people who are not not i don t think that it was for a majority of russians, but many people buy it. there was an anecdote in the ft that sergey lavrov, the longtime foreign minister who was apparently told about the inflation only two hours before was asked who is advising vladimir putin. oh, i can tell you, he has three main advisers, peter the great, and ivan the terrible. and the fourth and important one is stalin. interesting. at the end of the day, do you think his days are numbered in any meaningful sense? you know, actually the sources in moscow, i believe right after prigozhin s mutiny started telling me that they used to be sure that his
and the baltic sea, you can now call it the nato sea if you wanted to. i mean, with sweden, you make sweden green, you are essentially encircling the baltic sea which, of course, thanks to peter the great, is russia s great sort of outlet to the atlantic and to the world. there you have it, it is surrounded by nato. it s really an extraordinary piece of state craft and diplomacy that president biden and secretary blinken and secretary austin and his team have put together that make this happen. and happen faster than anybody could imagine. nobody thought nato would emerge
treat and how many had died unnecessarilych this is undermining the narrative of the war and the entire narrative of the invasion of ukraine going back to 2014. i think it put him in tune with the russian army in a way that maybe the russian military leadership is not. in that he wasn t talking about imperialism or peter the great or some kind of idea about russia s special role or christianity, he was talking about you haven t giving us enough weapons or letting us fight. and i think this is the reason why so many soldiers seemed at least initially prepared to support him. to me, the extraordinary moment yesterday was after that comment was when he was sitting in rostov and chatting away and they were happy that he was there and nobody was trying to arrest him or take him away.
i mean, this was really undermining the entire narrative of the war and really the entire narrative of the invasion of ukraine going back to 2014. i think it put him in tune with the russian army in a way that maybe the russian military leadership is not, and that he wasn t talking about imperialism or peter the great or some kind of idea about russia s special role on christianity. he was talking about you aren t giving us enough weapons and you aren t letting us fight. i think this was the reason why so many soldiers seemed to at least initially prepared to support him. to me, the extraordinary moment yesterday was after that comment was when he was sitting in the courtyard in rostov with the leaders of the southern military district chatting away, and they seemed very happy that he wases there and nobody was trying to arrest him or take him away. so he has some kind of rapport