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Julia Ioffe on Putin's Road to War

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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Why Did He Have to Change the Constitution?

He will keep all his options open and let people believe that it's not going to be as bad. He insists on this window dressing at every point, which is also what he did in invading ukraine. The other thing that's amazing about it is, why does he still have elections? If you're going to be ruler for life, just toss the constitution. Just stop having elections. But he n ists on driving high turnout, which means everybody in the pyramid below him has to work really hard to getEverybody in the factories and everybody in all the offices and all schools to come out and vote.

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