Anne ApplebaumJun 25, 2023

"This was the most remarkable aspect of the whole day: Nobody seemed to mind, particularly, that a brutal new warlord had arrived to replace the existing regime—not the security services, not the army, and not the general public"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/putin-caught-in-his-own-trap/674524/

Russians Didn’t Care Enough to Save Putin

After spending years cultivating public apathy, the Russian president found his people indifferent to his fate.

The Atlantic
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@anneapplebaum Yeah, that’s exactly what struck me as well… you have an armed insurrection in your country and it’s more or less… business as usual? Tells us a lot how much the public has been numbed and is indifferent about what is happening.
Jun 25, 2023 at 3:07pmWeb