The Realistic Prospects for Putin's Retake

We don't know who in the leadership would insist on his leaving power and or conspire against him. No one can be sure that if he begins to organize a conspiracy that it will stay secret for long. The alternative is for us basically to allow them to win and then create the conditions for a new war. I think we're touching the bottom. That's the campaign for the war, it can't get worse than this. If they use nuclear weapons which they could do to stave off defeat, it will get worse. But what's the alternative?

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