Russia
Russia projects consolidated domestic control paired with declining external influence capacity.
PF Score
72
▲1Authority
72
Reach
72
Under construction
Russia's Ukraine strike tempo halts its recent reach slippage.
Wartime mobilization still absorbs deep-strike disruption.
Ukraine escalation preserves external coercive relevance.
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
In power since 1999 (PM then President).
Ukraine's drone campaign continues to erode Russia's practical monopoly on escalation by imposing costs on energy and industrial infrastructure deep inside Russian territory.
Repeated strikes near Bushehr move the Iran-Israel-US confrontation into a higher-risk coercive phase where critical nuclear-adjacent infrastructure is being used as leverage.
The successful US extraction of a second downed airman from inside Iran is a concrete indicator that Washington can penetrate Iranian battlespace despite Tehran's claims of wartime control.