A Russian View: Post-Mobilization Edition (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Putin Doesn't Believe in Authentic Popular Revolt
The Russian story is that there was this ongoing war between the separatists who were Russia supported and Ukraine. They took this very much as like an ethnic kind of nationalist thing. So, hey, does that, it sounds to me like having heard what this, you know, Zlensky confidant said about how, basically, we welcome war with Russia? But that's a footnote. My main point is, I don't think things had to get to the point that they were in 2019."
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