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Putin's Transition to a Nationalistic Russia
One scenario that I didn't think was at all likely last Friday even but I increasingly think might be plausible is you have elections coming up in 2024 Putin has not yet declared that he's running clearly he had intentions to run. You may have people come to him now whether it's a Nikolai Potschr'shiv the head of the Security Council whose son he had Putin promote then who would now become the Agriculture Minister in Russia the Sun. Then you have the same situation take place with Lukashenko where the protests erupted in 2020 when he worked the elections people poured out on the streets and he brutally suppressed them Didn't hesitate he even came out with a gun, very different from