Kyiv does not need to retake all the territory currently occupied by Russian forces to defeat Moscow, Igor Eidman says. It need only force Moscow to pursue total mobilization, something the Putin regime is incapable of carrying out and then Russia will collapse and Ukraine will win the war.

Pro-Kremlin figures like Aleksey Chadayev and Ruslan Pukhov are already making what may seem this counter-intuitive argument (discred.ru/2024/10/01/aleksej-chadaev-kak-povysit-uroven-grazhdanskoj-mobilizatsii/ and opinions.glavred.info/chem-opasen-zahvat-rossiyanami-ugledara-rossiyanami-10601951.html), the Berlin-based Russian analyst points out (t.me/igoreidman/1758 reposted at charter97.org/ru/news/2024/10/5/613374/).

In the words of Chadayev, “both the Romanov and the Soviet systems looked as if they were much stronger and more balanced than the current post-perestroika Russian Federation, knit together on a living thread, and yet both loudly........

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