I have long been arguing and tracking the development of a pre-coup situation and coup poker inside the Ukraine’s Maidan regime. Replete with neofascists, corruption, and criminaity and threatened by a collapsing front, fraying army, failing state, and a society and polity riven with divisions and crises (energy, financial, economic, and moral, social, political, and military) Kiev is ripe for a coup. Indeed, it has been in such a state or nearly so for years, with manifestations of pre-coup action which I have documented here and on my original site (Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com). One can doubt the potential for a military or ‘palace’ coup and/or neofascist or other form of revolt, but one does so at one’s analytical peril. …………………….
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About the Author –
Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.