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By the end of his new six-year term of approximately 2,190 days he will be Russia’s longest serving leader since the start of the twentieth century.
This record is currently held by Joseph Stalin, who led the country between 1924 and 1953 for a total of 10,636 days.
Putin became Russia’s second longest-serving leader overtaking Leonid Brezhnev in 2017 late into his third term as president.
During Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency from 2008 to 2012, Russian law was amended to extend presidential terms from two terms of four years to two terms of six years.
This change was also designed to reset terms served and therefore enabled Putin to win another two terms.
A decade later, in 2021, Putin signed another law setting the limit at two presidential mandates per person in a lifetime, again paradoxically resetting terms already served and thereby exempting him for a second time.
Putin leads, Trump follows.
I would think that ‘win’ in this story deserves to be put in big fat quotes …
Putin is holding aces and eights. Every Russian emperor who lost a war got liquidated. Putin cannot win Ukraine if Europe begins contributing and funding their armies. Brussels is slowly coming around. Macron of all people is leading the charge.
No he (Macron) isn’t. France has contributed almost nothing to the defence of Ukraine. Far, far less than Denmark. Germany is #2, but did a very poor job advertising it. Macron : all hat and no cattle as they say in Texas.
That’s not strictly true. France, like Ireland and Greece, can’t supply weapons aid directly without all sorts of constitutional problems so they are the second largest supplier of aid through the EU after Germany who do 50% directly, 50% through EU.
But yes, Denmark are really pulling their weight more than anybody else.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the EU funding doesn’t actually provide weapons or systems for defence.
France didn’t seem to have any problems supplying military equipment to Russia. They exported defence equipment and components (things like tank thermal imaging cameras) directly to Russia between 2015 and 2020 (yes, that’s after the 2014 invasion of Crimea). They also contracts to supply two amphibious assault ships to Russia that the US pressured them to cancel in 2015.
General George S. Patton Jr. said it best. “I’d rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.” I lived in France and worked for the French government. The kindest words I can say are France is a low trust society. Don’t go there. Avoid the French people. Make no contracts with the French. Smile when you recall the Battle of Agincourt.
Should we remember Crecy too?
Just askin’ like.
Yes it does. Over half a million shells, with another half million being produced. Also many billions of Euros to buy raw materials and equipment, such as explosives and drones that they can package themselves.