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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Putin and the Mafia

Most of the people around him are loyal to him. They benefited massively in terms of their own pocket books and power from Putin. So I think it's going to take a lot for them to actually turn on him because once you do that, once you turn on the czar, it's a little bit like in the mafia. Russia really starts to resemble maybe Sudan with with missile. It's hard to believe that Vladimir Putin dies peacefully by his bed surrounded by weeping relatives.

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