Elite Defection - The End of Putin

“The predators will devour a predator.”-President Zelensky

“I feel badly for Putin. He’s damned. He’ll wind up like Mubarak, Gaddafi, and Ben Ali - it’s gonna end badly for him.”-Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition leader, in 2011

As a student of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Lucid chats, I’ve been waiting for this day. The day it becomes clear that a dictator is going to fall. The sign she said to look for is known as ‘elite …