Will the Protests Following the Mobilization Give Birth to an Anti-Putin Revolt in Russia?

Putin's choices, each more disastrous than the last, now suggest such an outcome.

A question has been on our mind for some time: will the war in Ukraine give birth to a Russian revolution like the Russo-Japanese war that started in 1904, and then the First World War, the 1917 revolution, as the opposition intellectual Andrei Piontkovski implied in a recent program? Or could it at least produce cracks capable of shaking Vladimir Putin…