nominally, he is not threatened any more. 5,000 armed people are not marching to moscow any more. and that s something he can claim as a victory. but his standing as a head of russian russian state had been weakened immensely. the fact that he almost for 12 hours or more, there was no word from kremlin while, as i said, one of the biggest southern russian cities was taken over by armed mercenaries. and when a huge column of armed mercenaries, private army, was marching towards moscow for up to about 200km from moscow, they stopped on their own volition. nobody stopped them. nobody resisted them. they went unimpeded. where were the law enforcement? where was rosgvardia? where was the army? where was the minister of defence? these are questions that probably mr putin is asking himself.
particular things, we don t know. a of are saying that putin has been badly weakened by this. but he has come out the victor, hasn t he? nominally, he is not threatened anymore. 5000 armed people are not marching to moscow anymore, and that is something he can claim as a victory. but his standing as the head of the russian state has been weakened immensely, the fact that for almost 12 hours or more there was no word from the kremlin while, as i said, the biggest, one of the biggest southern russian cities was taken over by armed mercenaries, and were huge, by armed mercenaries, private army was marching towards moscow, for up to about 200 kilometres from moscow, they stopped of their own volition. nobody stopped them, nobody resisted them. they went unimpeded. where was the