Still, they are in trouble on the home front,” he said of Russia’s economic situation.
“It has not been as bad as a lot of us hoped it would be. Petraeus, currently serving as chairman of the KKR Global Institute, said Putin faces “bleeding on the battlefield” as well as “in the economy, the home front.” The perception of Putin’s ironclad grip on power was shattered by last month’s Wagner rebellion, a short-lived uprising that nonetheless amounted to the greatest challenge to the Russian leader’s authority since he rose to power in the 1990s. “We need to continue to tighten the screws.” “Putin is in a very, very difficult situation,” Petraeus said in a phone interview. Washington should crank up the pressure on Moscow as Russian President Vladimir Putin is confronted by a powerful one-two punch of military and economic failures, former CIA director David Petraeus tells CNN.
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