Putin blinked.

History doesn’t repeat itself but it sure as hell does rhyme, let’s go back:

Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.

We now know what happened in that power vacuum. Rumor has it that Putin fled as well. Let’s see what a regime change in Moscow looks like.