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Anne Applebaum Jun 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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Christian Salcianu

@anneapplebaum No one says anything…. indeed (I mean the ones in power, though some people clap). They wait to see who wins and then they take the winner’s side. No courage at all. Not to mention that one is worse than the other. Why choose then? We will see the crumbling fall of this Babylon!