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Putin's Rise to Power
Warfare
Putin's Extreme View of His Historical Destiny
I don't think he was really under domestic threat at all in 2021. He would have felt it was necessary to go to war in order to clamp down harder at home. I think the version that's most convincing is that he became bound up in this grandiose, view of his historical destiny. It seems unlikely to me that he would have thought it necessary to fake that if he didn't really feel this.
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