Sky News asks:
Is Vladimir Putin losing his grip on Russia?
Well maybe but if so he joining a club with lots of other members:
- Starmer lost his grip on the UK despite a landslide win at elections only a couple of years ago
- Zelensky lost his grip on the fake Ukraine narrative with revelations piling up about corruption etc.
- Trump lost his grip on worldwide US hegemony but might redeem himself by getting a grip of the biggest threat to the USA - Cuba
Presumably Putin is losing his grip because he gets plenty of facetime with the most important leader in the world right now - China's Xi Jinping - unlike lots of other world leaders.
These kind of speculative headlines are just attempts to fuel fake news narratives that everyone in Russia hates Putin and that he has no idea what he is doing.
Maybe it's the MSM that has lost its grip on reality?
But that's hardly a question because we know that already.