Hanna Smith, research director of the Hybrid Expertise Center, says that individual events do not change the fact that Russia has already failed in its war of aggression.
22:05•Updated 22:20
Research Director of the Hybrid Expertise Center Hannah Smith estimates that poor military success has a significant impact Vladimir Putin popularity as president.
– These kinds of wars, which leave a stain, they weaken the position of the leader, Smith states on Thursday evening’s A-Talk, referring to examples from history.
According to Smith, the war of aggression in Ukraine is already a stain on Putin and it is difficult to change the situation in a more favorable direction.
– Putin’s countdown has begun.
According to Smith, the losses in the war are already reflected in, among other things, Russia’s economic situation and the fragmentation in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
– Getting back to that tough guy image that made Putin so popular is quite a long way to go. Maybe seventy-year-old Putin is no longer capable of that.
Smith states that Putin has already failed in his strategic goal of the war, i.e. the destruction of Ukraine. Even if Ukraine also experiences losses in the war, it still won’t change the matter, according to Smith.
Smith predicts a timeline for Putin’s status to change:
– It can happen from behind a tree and really quickly, or it can take a few years. But we won’t see Putin again in 2036.
The consequences of Ukraine’s counterattack are also discussed in A-Talk by the head of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute Kristi Raikdirector of the University of Helsinki’s research college Tuomas Forsberg and former commander of the Defense Forces Jarmo Lindberg.
Watch the entire A-Talk at Areena.
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