US officials see weakened Putin as Russia turmoil reveals 'cracks'

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'It's the most dramatic military political confrontation in Russia in the last 30 years, since the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union,' said Brian Taylor, professor at Syracuse University, as he spoke about Russia's short-lived insurrection

to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Wagner fighters has exposed fresh "cracks" in the strength of his leadership that may take weeks or months to play out, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday.

"We've seen more cracks emerge in the Russian facade. It is too soon to tell exactly where they go, and when they get there. But certainly, we have all sorts of new questions that Putin is going to have to address in the weeks and months ahead," Blinken told NBC's "Meet the Press" program."Our focus is resolutely and relentlessly on Ukraine, making sure that it has what it needs to defend itself and to take back territory that Russia seized," Blinken said.

House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner said Putin's future actions in Ukraine could be inhibited by Prigozhin's assertion that the rationale for invading Ukraine was based on lies. "One of the outcomes, I believe, of the last 36 hours, maybe 48 hours, is that the institutions that we have long seen as being very secure in Russia are slowly unraveling," Breedlove said in an interview. "The whole institution of the military now, the appearance of what the Russian military is, is much diminished."

 

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