Will Putin Rule Until 2036???

[PSnow771]

Will Putin really rule for another 14 years? I read that he changed the law in Russia, and now he can be re-elected twice more. How legitimate is that? Will he run for re-election or is there a chance he will step down?

[dannyk13]

Can't see him ever stepping down.He's too much of a megalomaniac for that.

[ToraToraTora]

"How legitimate is that? " - when you are a dictator everything is legal. I doubt he'll live much longer. He's none to clever health wise and I don't think it will be long before someone in his inner circle put a bullet through his head.

[brian j john]

I doubt it , Despots always meet a grisly end

[Prudie]

I tend to agree or is it hope that TTT is right.

[Maydup]

He can probably do whatever he wants but I don’t think he’ll live that long.

[pastafreak]

I don't think he can look forward to many more years...in or out of office.

[bookbinder]

https://pagesix.com/2018/03/19/vladimir-putin-is-probably-going-to-live-a-very-long-life/#:~:text=Vladimir%20Putin%2C%20just%20re-elected%20in%20a%20landslide%20to,a%20breakfast%20of%20porridge%20and%20hard-boiled%20quail%20eggs.

[davebro]

However long he lives he'll never live down the disgrace of the Ukraine invasion or be accepted as a welcome visitor outside of Russia and it's satellites.

[jno]

Despots always meet a grisly end

afraid not. Roman emperors sometimes came to a sticky end - one was captured by the Persians and sent the rest of his days being used as a human footstool. But in more modern times Stalin died of a stroke aged 74. Pol Pot was sentenced to life imprisonment but died of heart failure at 72. Kim Il Sung had a heart attack at 82.

They didn't spend a lot of time invading neighbours, though, and maybe losing wars makes leaders more vulnerable.