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"Russia is a puzzle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." The phrase is Winston Churchill's, and he made this observation in 1939, as he did not know what were "the intentions of the Soviet Union in dividing Poland with Nazi Germany".
The famous aphorism suits Vladimir Putin very well after the events of June 24 and the uprising, which was subsequently stopped, of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army.
There are those who argue that at the end of it, the Russian president was even strengthened, while others note that the open outbreak of the struggle for power among the factions has inevitably weakened him.
Ukraine hopes that the political and military crisis in the Kremlin gives an advantage to that part of the Russian nomenklatura that opposes the conflict. Many human losses (Prigozhin's accusation to the military leaders that they had hidden them); costs are excessive.
Putin's mask in this whole situation remained intact. Cold. Like a ghost. A conundrum.
If it were the measure of his power, we must assume that it has remained intact. What the mask hides is the mystery that disturbs the sleep of the West. Unlike Richard III or Macbeth, his seems a solitary villainy. Clothed in a long reign, now almost as much as that of Stalin, which so worried Churchill.
Putin's parable seems to have come to an end, even though the czar is far from isolated in the world. And it is said that popular Russian nationalism will not regroup around its leader. The West, on the other hand, wants him defeated, but not by much. Because there is no end to evil, especially in a large country with 6,000 nuclear warheads. And here the puzzle is complete. /Bota.al
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