Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Keir Giles - After 2007 Munich Security Conference Moscow’s Intent to Challenge West Became Clear." video.

Keir Giles is up there with Sir James Sherr, they are the top shelf of Chatham house experts. (All Chatham house experts are great btw). 👍 Keir off the bat is on point that this war was not a matter of regime survival as Vlad Vexler states (Il love Vlad but he's got it wrong in this case). It doesn't take a genius to work out that Putin would have just rigged elections this year like he has since he was appointed in 1999 by Yeltsin. This war was about something other than "regime survival", and obversely, was a great risk to his regime if it fails.
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