Comments by "Archie Bald" (@archiebald4717) on "Former MI6 Chief On the Ukraine u0026 Russia Conflict | Oxford Union" video.

@julianpetkov8320 Seems to me he was pretty good. You cannot compare invading Ukraine with invading Taiwan at all. A good look at Putin as he is now, compared to how he was a couple of decades ago, shows that there is something wrong with him. He has become accustomed to being a murderous dictator that nobody can touch. He gets his way in Russia by imprisoning and executing his opponents, Ukraine is simply an extension of that. His type of dictatorship will never be voted out, it will take a coup with a very large crowbar to extricate him. As the money dries up he will have less to hand out to his greedy, unprincipled, sycophants, then he becomes more vulnerable.
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Autocratic leaders generally lose touch with reality, have no honest advisers around them and overestimate their unfallibility and longevity.
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