Is Putin dying?

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  Welcome to the world in 10 in an increasingly uncertain world.

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  This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security Today with me,

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  Toby Gillis and Alex Dibble.

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  Last week, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, Vladimir Putin is going to die soon.

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  That's a fact.

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  And it will all be over.

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  Zelenskyy didn't elaborate at all.

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  But does he know more than the rest of us?

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  Is Putin dying?

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  Our guest today is the head of foreign policy at the New Eurasian Strategy Center, John Luff.

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  John, let's go Route 1, shall we?

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  Is Vladimir Putin going to die soon?

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  The answer is we don't know.

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  There is a lot of speculation about his health and for some years various people have been saying

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  that he's got some form of cancer.

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  There have been times when he's disappeared from the scene for a while,

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  but he appears to still be functioning as president and I would say quite effectively.

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  There is almost certainly one or maybe even more than one double who shows up at various events.

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  And most recently,

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  a lot of observers noticed

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