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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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@anneapplebaum insightful article, but Oh God how do you handle those replies - and that's just the public ones. (Obviously not expecting a reply or for this to even be read, but have to wonder if dealing with the responses to an article can end up stripping away more of your soul than reporting on the horror in the world)