Vladimir puthin, at the moment, is a very lonely figure. He is finally a dictator. And for him, that's a bad thing. On the one hand, he has absolute power to do whatever he wants in russia. But the people around him are now terrified of him and will tell him what they think he wants to hear. That is very bad for any leader of any country. Pochi now is in desperate need of solid, 100 % verified information, and he is not getting it. i think logically, given the story of dictatorship, when you get to an absolute top point of power, you begin to lose it.
The Russian president has come to rely on a skewed version of history and an increasingly small circle of advisers. Journalist Marvin Kalb explains what that means for the war in Ukraine.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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