A Russian View: Post-Mobilization Edition (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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How Much Do We Know About Putin?
If we can never make an honest attempt to explain why people do bad things because we'll be accused of justifying them, we're going to have to spend the rest of eternity in very consequential darkness as to why bad shit happens. But I think in the case of Putin, as you know, my view is that the US-Miss Man is just relationship with Russia going back 25 years. And if we hadn't, there might not have been an invasion of Ukraine, which again is not to get Putin off the hook. It was a violation of international law, which I take very seriously. The other compounding factor, he says, is look, as the Cold War ended, Russia is
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