He complained about them early then fired 200 Fsb agents. Putin got it a bit backwards, this fifth column are the Europhiles in Russia, most of the western 60 million who like Europe. Gazprom was the most supportive of europhiles.
I would expect a bunch of sabotage by the new generation of agents. But they are now scattered, running en mass from the new Stalinists.
Putin was really the fifth column, actually had a legal contract on that. His buddies include Chechnya, which looks increasingly nice as an oil hub. Putin's bunch was given some immunity to pursue oil deals, but Ukrainian war hardened line and we have civil war.
One of those blunders, accidentally starting a civil war. Historians can only look at the broad rends of these blunders over history. But they always do it.
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