Putin's new national policy strategy targets 'foreign meddling' and aims to have 95 percent of citizens share a 'Russian

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3. Yes this is what it looks like to me as well.

A man who has always been the smartest one in the room.
Able to manipulate the world and get whatever he wants easily.
Was the richest man in the world by stealing all of Russia's assets and
running a huge sex and drug trade.

He was certain the Ukraine invasion would be a three day cake walk.
It has been downhill since then. The war is going badly for him and draining
Russia.

China is now no longer his ally, India is abandoning him.
His own oligarchs and the Russian people are turning on him.
These are the things we know about. It is much worse behind the scenes.

He is desperate and grasping at straws as you say.