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Russia, if you're listening, it's time to take care of your own problem
Russia may not improve massively post Putin. According to some analysts, it could possibly get worse.
A lot of people do not realise the realpolitik involved. Getting rid of Putin might turn for the worse because there are no viable alternative that could hold Russia together. There is Navalny but how competent is he? He is also as much of a nationalist as Putin is (many Russians are). Lastly, it just occurred to me that maybe that's why many Russians still support Putin, because they do indeed see him as the stabilising element for Russia. Dictators always play the stability part to stoke the innate sense of human yearning for security and people's notion of "better the devil you know".