Eerie photographs present pale Putin trying gaunt as professional warns Kremlin has no plan for his dying

Grim pictures of 73-year-old tyrant Vladimir Putin looking pale and gaunt have set off fresh questions about his health. While speculation swirls over Vlad’s fading physical condition, Kremlin bigwigs face the nightmare question of what happens when he dies.

Writing in foreign policy magazine Foreign Affairs, Dr. Julian G. Waller, a research scientist in Russian studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, warns that uncertainty is haunting Russia as the regime has no plan for what comes next.

In his assessment, Dr. Waller reveals that the tyrant has built a system that refuses to prepare for the inevitable, leaving the country totally unprepared.