Will Putin be toppled by the disastrous war in Ukraine? No, he won't

Everyone in the West is hoping and praying, and believing, that Vladimir Putin, will somehow be toppled/unseated/dumped by the Moscow elite because of the disastrous way the war in Ukraine has been handled and the worldwide condemnation of the atrocities against civilians that are emerging daily. Surely, the argument goes, Putin will be blamed for destroying Russia's reputation and future prosperity and his closest and super-rich associates will force him out in order to safeguard their wealth and possessions. Of course,the opposite is the case. Those who have been made rich by being loyal to Putin have no one else to turn to. They need Putin to stay in power to preserve their riches. Without Putin at the top of the wealth pyramid, the whole structure will collapse. The superyachts that haven't yet been seized by zealous western sanctions police will be gone for ever. Their lifestyles will plummet. So it's in their interest to keep Putin in power. Those in the West who are convincing themselves, like Joe Biden is doing, that someone as monstrous as Putin cannot surely remain in power, are failing to look at the odds the right way around. The odds of Putin surviving have to be examined from the Russian point of view, not the western point of view. More than 80 per cent of the Russian population think Putin is a great leader. He has totally won the information war inside Russia. He has convinced the average Russian that what his noble troops are doing in Ukraine is saving that country from Nazism and bringing it back to the glory days of the Soviet Union. All the reports and pictures of dead civilians lying in the streets of Bucha and elsewhere are all part of a huge scam by Ukraine and its western backers to undermine and destroy Russia. This is the Moscow propaganda department working at full stretch and the Russian people appear to believe it to be true. And all this talk of sending Putin and his generals to The Hague war crimes tribunal is part of the same plot by the US and Nato to disrespect and undermine the Russian nation. Western leaders are fooling themselves if they think Putin is going to be overthrown. There is no one in Moscow with the power or the desire to overthrow him. Putin is Russia and Russia is Putin. And the West is the enemy. Putin believes this with every drop of blood in his body. He has always believed it and he will never give up. He will eventually achieve what he wants to achieve in Ukraine and if it takes a million dead Ukrainians, he won't care because he will say it's the West's fault for daring to expand their alliance to the borders of Russia. His hatred for the West is what's driving him, and the hatred is getting stronger as each day passes.