'Fatal mistake': Horror warning for West not to play into hands of Putin's successor

Dr Mark Galleoti, Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and another expert involved in the simulation stated that it is more likely that Putin’s successor will be a nationalist figure who will further Putin’s ideology of hatred toward the West. He said: “It is more likely that a nationalist figure would emerge, or a nationalist government or at least a nationalist policy would be adopted by the new government, and essentially force the elite to maintain Putin's very harsh stance.”