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Putin sick1/13/2024 Iran and Russia's friendship is more complicated than it seems So without a clear successor to Putin, Russia is always a few sneezes away from a full-blown political crisis. The Kremlin has worked hard to create an aura around Putin as the country’s sole problem-solver: He hosts an annual call-in show where he literally takes on the role of pothole-fixer-in-chief.Īnd over the course of two decades, he has consolidated power, building a system that is driven by the whims and fixations of one person (obvious case in point: the invasion of Ukraine). That’s the nature of Putinism, a sort of postmodern dictatorship built around one man. And every time Putin disappears from public view for a few days - or even makes a slight misstep, such as he did recently after touching down in Tehran - it can set off a round of intense, tabloid-style speculation about his physical wellbeing. His body language, speech and gait have all been relentlessly scrutinized. So what are we to make of speculation about Putin’s health? These rumors are nothing new. ![]() CIA Director Bill Burns gave an unusually candid assessment this week, when he told attendees at the Aspen Institute’s annual security confab that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “entirely too healthy.”īurns was careful to qualify apparently tongue-in-cheek remarks, saying they didn’t constitute “a formal intelligence judgment.”īut asked directly if Putin was unhealthy or unstable, he said: “There are lots of rumors about President Putin’s health and as far as we can tell, he’s entirely too healthy.”
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