Not yet, but he is in trouble, and the press is beginning to report the facts rather than the regime’s, and that is not good for Putin. Ah, here we go again with the Press being in the middle and the only reason Putin is in power. The press “was” his communications arm, but maybe that is fading away, and the truth will begin coming out. Russia cannot win this war.
In our country, our press is on the opposite side of our President, but we are slowly seeing cracks as well, thanks to our freedom of speech on a few cable stations and to Elon buying Twitter. If you remember, Twitter censored everything good and reported lies in support of the progressives, and I can attest to that. Before Musk and Trump’s election, the progressives controlled the messaging in America. Now, we are seeing a break and a return to normalcy. But, if the progressives ever take power, you can expect a communist style control of the truth. All IMO.
https://www.nysun.com/article/putin-plays-tough-but-cracks-appear
“On the floor of the Duma, pro-Kremlin deputy Valery Gartung swore and shouted last week when he talked about the nation’s yawning budget hole of $150 billion. Recalling the economic nightmare of the post-Soviet years, he screamed: “What are we going to do about this? Print money? Is it going to be as it was in 1992 when every week prices grew 30 percent?”
“Putin is losing his magic,” exiled analyst Alexander Baunov wrote from Berlin. In an essay for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he wrote: “’Victors are not judged,’ the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin liked to say. But non-victors can be — and people are beginning to judge Putin.”
Mr. Baunov, who worked as a journalist in Moscow for almost 20 years, sees cracks in Russia’s tightly controlled press. Last month, the mass circulation newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets published an article detailing how Russia’s past military defeats — the Crimean War, the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, and World War I — prompted political and economic liberalization, albeit sometimes short lived. After this history lesson drew too much attention, it was removed from the website.
Catering to a more rarefied audience, Russia in Global Affairs magazine posted an article by academic Vasily Kashin arguing that America’s experience in Iran indicates that a Russian assassination of Mr. Zelensky could backfire. He wrote: “Liquidating the anti-Russian regime is principally unattainable without a total military occupation of the entire country over a long period. For Russia, this is technically impossible.”