I’ll bite, here’s a little list of the top of my head.
- They’ve had a failed invasion of Ukraine
- Rampant corruption
- Putin is getting old and frail
- Russia has a struggling economy where “Fortress Russia” is starting to fall short
- Drone strikes from Ukraine have been able to target major Russian cities.
- There was a mini-coup attempt by one of Putin’s closest allies where a standing army nearly made it to Moscow while shooting down multiple Russian military aircraft.
In case anyone, like me, wants a source for Pence refusing to get in the car with the Secret Service. It’s from the book “I Alone Can Fix It.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/pence-car-raskin-comments/
The “terrified” part is speculation, but potentially true.