MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
There is no worse, only weaker.
Putin has spent 20+ years developing and maintaining his stranglehold on what counts as an apparatus and it's been more or less loyal this whole time (within the boundaries of acceptable Russian double dealing and run of the mill corruption).
The next guy will require at least a decade to create similar conditions and Russia will be deeply, deeply injured while he's running around installing the right people in the right places and making an example of the wrong people.
Also, whoever takes over next will likely have to deal with a similar set of freedom movements as Putin himself had to deal with. There's a handful of regions that would break away if they felt they could.
Putin has spent 20+ years developing and maintaining his stranglehold on what counts as an apparatus and it's been more or less loyal this whole time (within the boundaries of acceptable Russian double dealing and run of the mill corruption).
The next guy will require at least a decade to create similar conditions and Russia will be deeply, deeply injured while he's running around installing the right people in the right places and making an example of the wrong people.
Also, whoever takes over next will likely have to deal with a similar set of freedom movements as Putin himself had to deal with. There's a handful of regions that would break away if they felt they could.