Putin’s Henchmen Caught Desperately Scheming to Prop Him Up

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images As Vladimir Putin seems to increasingly be losing the stability he’s always promised, the security services that have long propped him up have resorted to elaborate fantasies to feed his delusions. The Federal Security Service—the successor to the KGB—has a long history of dealing with Islamic terrorism during Putin’s earlier years in power. But after he sent troops to invade Ukraine in February 2022, things radically changed.…