Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered a geopolitical defeat in recent years and this is evident in the example of Ukraine and its attempts to influence the elections in European countries.

About this in his article for the "Apostrophe" wrote a Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin.

At the same time, he notes that Russia's strategy at this stage to become softer it can no longer, because it will be a loss of face, as well as become more rigid - also can not, because Putin has no serious resources.

"The only thing Putin has been implementing for several years now is the threat of armed conflict, which the West can not afford, because he has other ideas about the permissible losses. If for the Soviet army and for the Russian leadership the allowable losses were always an order of magnitude higher than for the West, then it is clear that the threat of a real military conflict for the West is unacceptable. At the same time, Moscow pretends that it can admit this. Not really. Unfavorable Western rationalism just shows that Putin does not have a sufficient military base to seriously interfere with the West. The only thing he can do is scare, "Oreshkin said..

He also draws attention to the fact that the geopolitical defeat led to the fact that Putin's Russia surrounded itself with a ring of ill-wishers, because all are afraid of it and consider it a source of destabilization.

"It turned out already a solid ring - the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus is already beginning to behave ambivalently,. And only one Mr. Dodon from Moldova is present at the parade next to Vladimir Putin. This has not happened for a long time. It remains only Kim Jong-un to invite to the procession, "- ironically Oreshkin.

Earlier, political scientist and journalist Vitaly Portnikov predicted the collapse of the Kremlin's plans in Europe.

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