At the same time, Jiang says Putin may remain in power for another twenty years because he is still sharp and animated by a strong sense of mission.
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Leadership Longevity
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Jiang says many elderly leaders keep going because high office produces a different mentality, access to the world's best medicine, and an inner conviction that without them society would collapse.
Jiang uses Khamenei as evidence that leaders who see a long-awaited geopolitical mission before them may keep ruling despite advanced age and visible frailty.
Jiang says aging rulers are also sustained by entourages whose own power depends on the leader staying alive and in office.
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"stalin died and khrushchev took over there's going to be a negation of the putin regime there's going to be civil conflict i don't..."
"one after putin i mean like once putin um leaves the scene it's entirely possible russia disintegrates it really is but at the same..."
"Yeah, that's a fantastic question. And we've never really reached this point in history where we've never had in history so many really old..."
"be he would have ran against Trump and he would have lost, of course, but he would have run. So I'm not I'm not..."
"So as long as I believe they have the sense of mission, the messianic calling, they can keep on going. So I mean, we..."
"I mean, we sort of like underestimate the possibility. How of the human will and human faith. So I understand like these leaders are..."
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