This interview focused on the issues I laid out in an essay this morning, namely whether the intense discussions on Russian state television news and commentary shows these past few days of the way Russia is now perceived in the West as weak, indecisive and incapable of prosecuting its war in Ukraine to victory suggest that a coup is being plotted to remove Putin from office and replace him with a more decisive and assertive leader or whether Putin himself is preparing the Russian public for a sharp change from his policy of war of attrition to a decapitation strike against Kiev that ends the war instantly.
‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 1 October: Are Russians Losing Patience [with President Putin]
