Remember who lied to you. The DailyMail spins a tall one:

Putin will ‘mobilize another 2 million including 300,000 women’ and ‘impose martial law in Moscow’ but may use crackdown to ‘bow out in favor of handpicked successor’

BS. And, beyond the lies, doubled and centupled down on, this is projection; it’s the evil empire that has plans to draft your daughters and keep a line of steady puppets in the fake White House.

To understand any of this, it helps to look at it the right way.