Matthew Sussex

to throw you in jail, to get you sacked from your job, to send your son to the front, then it's best to shut up.

Life is harder, but it's not reached the point, I think, where that would really boil over.

Oh, I definitely think it's, you know, the beginning of the end for Putin.

I wouldn't give him another 10 years.

But just how that shakes out is something we're going to have to wait and see.

I mean, an orderly power transition

would mean Putin saying, OK, this is the person I want to succeed me and I expect everybody to rally around them.

But I think Putin is reticent about doing that because that shows weakness and it shows a desire to go quietly.

So ultimately, I think really the only way based on what he's created himself, the only way Putin leaves the Kremlin is one way or another in a box.