No Putin, no problem? Maybe, but there's a military-industrial elite in Russia that has a strangehold on power.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/is-putin-the-problem?utm_source=twitter …
There's some overlap between that and Lieven's analysis but he also suggests the ideology is driving factor & shared by hard men as a cohort. Which could be a problem.
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The UofT prof got into that, too. She thinks the hard men are delighted that Putin is closing doors on the west, which they think will end decadence and increase economic self-sufficiency.
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Yeah, that's very close to Lieven's position. If not delighted, at least its something they can work with.
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