Can President Putin deliver on his promise that "everything will be fine" in Russia?

Putin isn’t a president and everything will be bad in Russia.

Calling Putin a president of Russia is like calling Bashar Al-Assad a president of Syria 2 months ago. “President” is a title that some murderous dictators like to use, because they can’t legitimately call themselves “tsar” or “sultan” — and they are too shy to use “dictator” (although I think it makes them feel good to hear when people call them that — like serial maniacs love to listen to their crimes discussed on TV).

Regarding “everything will be fine” (actually, Putin used the word “good” — I listened to his record short 3.5-minute NYE 2025 speech), in his 25 years at the helm of Russia, Putin made innumerable promises, on which he failed to deliver: not to stay in power for longer than 2 terms, not to raise the pension age, catch up to Portugal, make Russia technological superpower. In 2022, he promised that Russia would build 1,000 civilian airplanes by 2030. In 2024, Russia built zero (0) airplanes.

Actually, if I were a Russian citizen living in Russia, I would begin getting really worried.

If Putin feels he needs to promise “everything will be fine”, this means, Russia is for a whole new level of “bad”.