There has been speculation about Vladimir Putin’s (69) state of health for some time. Apparently he should Russian President with a “severe form of rapidly progressing cancer” Suffer. Doctors give him a maximum of three years to live. If the rumors are true, the question arises as to what will happen to Russia after Putin’s death.
The Moscow star author Dmitry Glukhovsky (42) dares a gloomy prognosis: He assumes that the Russian Federation will fall apart after Putin’s reign N-tv reported. Compared to the editorial network Germany (RND) Glukhovsky said: “Russia is a dying colonial empire.” Russia will only exist in its current form as long as Putin is president.
“Decay is inevitable”
“If Putin dies, a war of succession is inevitable,” the author continued. The whole state depends on Putin and his personal environment. «Russia’s disintegration as an empire, as a state, is made inevitable by Putin. He wanted to secure this state and its power – and he will destroy it.”
Glukhovsky has been living abroad since the beginning of the war. In his “Metro Trilogy” he wrote about a dystopian world in which people took refuge in the subway stations in the future after a nuclear war.
The author is shocked that Ukrainians actually used underground stations in Kyiv and Kharkiv as air raid shelters during the war: «I never thought that these pictures could exist in reality. I wrote a dystopia, I exaggerated to appeal that humanity must never go in the direction of a war of annihilation again,” he says.
Author does not rate Putin as suicidal
Even though Glukhovsky writes about a nuclear war in his trilogy, he doesn’t believe that the Ukraine war will go that far. “The strategic nuclear weapons are the only means of pressure that Putin still has against the West,” he said. “His army turns out to be weak, poorly armed, corrupt and ineffective.”
Putin threatens the West with the last and maximum means that he has. “Even if we assume that he has a maximum of five to ten years to live, I don’t rate him as suicidal,” says the author. (gin)