The myth of Putin's strategic genius has been imposed on the world for years - experts

However, against the background of military miscalculations in Ukraine and the armed rebellion within the Russian Federation, its ability to keep power seems not so undoubted. About it reports Newsweek. Until February 24, 2022, Putin enjoyed an international reputation of evil genius, a strategist who knows how and when to act.

During the five -day war in Georgia in 2008, when South Ossetia declared independence from Tbilisi, the Russian Federation began to restore the reputation of the military superpower. Six years later, most Russians applauded Putin for the annexation of Crimea "without a single shot.

" He began the war in the Donbass and later a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, and before that he confused the maps of the event in Syria, supported Bashar Assad and looked like a prudent geopolitical strategist, said Hutun Msdvobadze, a lecturer on Cybersecurity at George University. "But in the fact that the war in the Donbass, he dumped an unbearable burden.

Even in the conditions of censorship of information in the Russian Federation, people notice that something is certainly going wrong," the expert said. After 8 years, Donbass decided that he would be able to seize Kiev quickly. Now, after the 17 months of the full -scale war, the Russian Federation lost tens of thousands of soldiers, suffered economic losses, and to all Russian troubles on the horizon drew the turmoil.

Last year's counter -offensive of Ukraine in Kharkiv and Kherson regions caused rehearsal losses to the Kremlin head and dispelled the myth of its imaginary power. According to Tom Roberts, the associate professor of the Department of Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian research in Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts), during the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigogin, support for the President by the public was not felt, and two armed opposing PECs did not.

The day before the start of the rebellion, Prigogine recorded a video address, which, in fact, called the motivating part declared in the Kremlin regime for invasion of Ukraine. "In a long video of Prigogine, there is a lot of truth about the war, and Putin would not want it to be the property of the public," said the Hamilton College of Public Administration David River.