"All power comes out of the barrel of a gun". (reputedly: Chairman Mao).
Might has always been Right, and ever will be so.
Mr Putin is welcome to his watch. I have a little quartz clock (£2.50) on my bedside table. It keeps better time than the Longines on my wrist has ever done. For this I paid (70 years ago), in rupees, the present-day equivalent of £600.