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The Disconnect Between Putin's Legitimacy and the National Guard
Putin's legitimacy has been declining anywhere and inevitably he's going to take a hit from this rightly the money is becoming less and less available especially if Russia wants to be able to prosecute its Ukraine war for potentially years in the future. The National Guard which after all is not an incompetent force in the main but nonetheless that actually we should not assume that just because it's meant to be Putin's proctorian guard that it will act as one such, says Cilovic.