Putin says will step down as president after term expires in 2024

[Amakir]

It's not like Putin is the real guy in charge of Russia, it's the Oligarchs who actually run the show and if they have to stuff Putin away they will just find another chubby macho dude with charisma to win over the Russian people and useful idiots in the west and keep the cycle going.

[tempcon]

you refuse to believe it because you don't live in a country with a past failed liberal transformation, meaning no real healthy civil society, a lot oligarchic factionalism and corrupt politics, and a dilapidated people who no longer believe democracy can hold the country together

but even then, everyone in the west complains how nothing ever changes and we're ruled by a uniparty since the 90s, so..