This is so weird, did he miscalculate how intense the backlash would be? or he truly doesn't care?
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Or he's completely deranged and the drugs have irreversibly damaged his mind. Both scenarios, or some intersection therein, are plausible.
Or, more likely, to institute some kind of perpetual monarchy passed down through his 14 kids.
> Berezovsky, who elevated Putin to power from behind the scenes, was soon exiled and replaced with more compliant oligarchs. He also met a grisly end—found hanged at his Berkshire mansion at 67—a precedent that might give pause to anyone thinking of risking his business empire to play that gray-cardinal role for the likes of Trump and J. D. Vance.
No, one is a cruel fox and another one is a stupid monkey.
Their skills lie mainly in adaptability to the situations they found themselves in and using them, but neither is a mastermind.
Russians close to power have historically often met that fate - at least since 1917, I suspect either prison or forced internal or external exile was more common before that. Americans not so much I think, so this probably won't transfer.