The Importance of Loyalty in the Putin Presidency

The main weakness to Putin right now is not that someone is going to pop behind him and shoot him in the back or take over, but that he's going to become increasingly irrelevant. People all across the country will be saying, wait a second, if Progosion can get away with a mutiny, what can we get away with? Do we need to ask Mother Mayai of the Kremlin every time we want to do something that enriches ourselves or increases our power? Our fiefdoms are our own sort of... Exactly, exactly.