putin Just Turned His FSB on russia’s Elites (video commentary)

06/13/2026

For years, Putin’s system promised Russia’s elites protection in exchange for loyalty, silence, and service to the regime. That bargain is breaking in public as billions in assets are seized, Kremlin-linked fortunes are redistributed, and the same security machine that defended the ruling class begins feeding on it.

Across Russia’s poorer regions, the war economy is extracting bodies, money, and obedience from people who never shared in Moscow’s wealth. Buryatia, Tyva, Altai, and other peripheral republics face weaker wages, shorter lives, higher war-death burdens, military contracts priced to exploit desperation, and local punishment when they resist.

Now even loyal insiders are warning that Russia is moving toward social explosion and chaos. A State Duma deputy from Buryatia is demanding a concrete plan to end the war, while other system figures warn about economic exhaustion, production decline, inflation, and manpower limits. Putin launched a war against Ukraine, but the pressure is now moving back into his own regime.

CHAPTERS:00:00 – Russia’s Warning Comes From Within00:56 – Ukraine’s Strikes Shake Russia02:01 – Putin’s Billionaires Lose Protection03:50 – Why Russia’s Elites Are Nervous05:01 – Wealth Booms for Insiders, Poverty Grows for Everyone Else06:44 – Corruption and Kremlin Privilege Exposed08:02 – Russia’s Military Is Running Out of Money09:20 – Loyalists Warn of Chaos and Social Explosion 11:06 – Buryatia Bears the Cost of Putin’s War12:57 – Altai Protests Signal Growing Resistance14:05 – Russia’s Colonial War Machine Is Breaking15:03 – Putin’s Dangerous Belief System and the End of His Regime