In order to support the regime besieged by the enemies of the fortress, he needs an atmosphere of confrontation with the West, writes on the portal NV the Russian political scientist and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky.

At the same time, Putin was convinced that he has no political and military resources for serious confrontation with the West.

In Ukraine, the concept of the "Russian world" failed: what was to become Novorossia ended in bandit Luganda. Putin appealed to the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, he wanted to unleash an ethnic war, but the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians remained true to their state and European choice. This was the most difficult metaphysical defeat of Putin.

To a large extent, it was for this reason that he reached Syria - to distract from his failure. But now three times Putin withdrew troops, announcing the victory, and ended with a shameful rout of 500-600 Russian servicemen. Although they, like in Ukraine, they called "green men". The Russians were killed in the first real clash with the Americans, and it showed that the Russian army can not be measured by forces with the US or Israeli army, which on the same day destroyed half of the Syrian air defense.

Therefore, no major military victories are foretold in Putin. Well, if he completely goes mad and goes to Kiev - the reaction of the West will be so serious that everything will end in failure.

Putin chooses a new tactic: nuclear blackmail, cartoons with horror stories, an interview that he is ready to personally use nuclear weapons. Finally, a demonstrative chemical attack in Britain.

Putin deliberately went on to aggravate relations with the West. Such an extreme form of exacerbation - balancing on the verge of endless threats - is necessary for him to maintain his power in Russia and create a hysterical atmosphere in the world.

And the election results show that Putin partially succeeded in this. There, not everything is so good for him: there were a lot of falsifications at the elections and it is already mathematically calculated that 10 million ballots were thrown in. Nevertheless, 30-40% of voters still voted for him.

Part of the population is conducted on imperial ideology, the state of war with the West and the restoration of lost lands. It was this motive that Putin repeated several times during his speeches. Like, in 1991, Russia lost that and this is it.. For Putin, an independent state - Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan - is Russia's lost territory.

Putin does not have the resources for a real big war, but such balancing on the brink of nuclear war is his goal. For him this is the only opportunity to be president throughout his life. After all, he perfectly understands what will happen to him the next day after his removal from power.

The West is slowly, but still going. Hitler also slowly developed their own reaction: in the 30s of the last century he was inferior.

Now the West has a very strong tool, which, including politically, can undermine Putin's position in Russia. This money is the Russian top: a trillion dollars in the US and half a trillion in the UK.

This is a colossal money, owned by all those involved in the "Kremlin" list. The Americans began to publish it, but at the last moment they stopped and transferred hundreds of pages of information obtained by financial intelligence to the secret part of the document.

This is criminal money stolen in the Russian people. Publish, freeze, confiscate and state that this money will be returned to the first post-criminal Russian government. They can not be returned to this government, because they are the same robbers.

Now Boris Johnson and Teresa May are talking - they are on the verge of making this decision. And I know for sure that the population of Russia will meet 99% with such a statement with great enthusiasm. This will greatly undermine Putin's political position.

And whether the West will decide on this step - we will see in the near future.