Major American companies including Coca Cola, McDonald’s, Starbucks, and others shutdown locations across Russia this week to protest Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Putin miscalculated the Ukrainians’ willingness to fight, the leadership style and willingness to die for the cause of [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy,” said Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and author of “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America.”

 

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“The sanctions could make it very difficult to govern Russia, in the sense that people’s savings have been wiped out, factories will start to close, and there are fewer high-tech imports that are needed for the Russian economy. And obviously, the financial elite has taken a real beating,” added Timothy Frye, the professor of post-Soviet foreign policy at Columbia University.

 

“At some point, Putin, who has long been averse to any kind of domestic political instability, might fear the reaction from the elite and from the mass public, and begin to look for a way out of this situation, but we’re not there yet,” Frye explained. “It could take a while before we get there.”

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