VLADIMIR PUTIN won’t survive much longer as Russian leader – but his successor could be worse, ex-Army legend “Macho Jacko” says.
General Sir Mike Jackson, 79, said the tyrant would be done in “one way or the other”.
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Yet he warned that whoever comes next could easily be just as bad or worse.
The lifelong Russia expert said: “For those of you who wish to see Vladimir Putin knocked off his pedestal and elsewhere, even six feet down, remember the old nursery rhyme, ‘Hang on tight to nurse, for fear of something worse.’
“There is no guarantee that a Putin successor would not be as autocratic as he.”
Putin, 71, has been dogged by reports of serious ill health but is expected to win his fifth term as president next year.
The former intelligence officer has ruled Russia as President and Prime Minister since 1999.
But Sir Mike said his tenure in the Kremlin was approaching its end.
Addressing fellow Army…
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