The Unthinkable Appeal of Vladimir Putin

After the 90s, after sort of the revolution of 1918, Russians deathly fear real sort of internacy in war, Civil War. And this is the one fear that he can always appeal to in order to prevent a popular uprising or to try to build popular opposition to a civil war. After this appeal, you look at what was happening in the rest of Russia and the people were welcoming Wagner. So something has flipped the switch. This appealed to 1970. It's weakness. And then he disappeared for the entire day. Then Lukashenko came in and he negotiated who the hell is Lukashenko at the end of the day. I mean, it's obvious. These are the