Foreign Policy magazine columnist Anchal Vohra says some Western strategists are openly saying that Russia's disintegration is coming. The Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe has called for what it calls "Russian decolonization" The Post-Russia Free Nations Forum released a map of a torn Russia into 3 different countries in the post-Russian world of President Vladimir Putin, assuming he lost in Ukraine and was eliminated.
Some analysts say Putin's defeat in Ukraine will eliminate the cult of the strongman and expose him as a weak leader.