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close to putin? these are people with considerable power on their own. these are people with the head of security services or intelligence services or other high ranking people where people have power on their own. the tipping point i m referring to is when the things get so bad for russia that people who were close to putin who have the power can go to him and say this is going badly, and perhaps among themselves say, will we go down with ukraine, or do we need to make other plans? doesn t all power flow from putin? not exactly. it is a byzantine world inside the kremlin. putin has the power, but there are so many backroom deals and relationships that develop with these people. they thought everything was going okay and he had all of the power until people like this try to conduct a cool while he was on vacation.
bad for russia that people close to putin who have the power can actually go to him and say look, this is going very badly and also perhaps among themselves say look, are we going to go down with ukraine and putin or do we need to make other plans? but, steve, doesn t all power flow from putin? not exactly. i mean it s a very byzantine world inside the kremlin. certainly putin has the lion s share of power, but there are so many back room deals and relationships that develop between these people. remember mikhail gorbachev thought everything was okay and he had all the power until people like this group tried to conduct a coup. this is not the first time it s happened or people close to the leader in the kremlin have started thinking wow, things are going badly. what do we do? greg, do you get any sense from the sources and western