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INTERVIEW: John Mearsheimer—Leading International Relations Scholar—On US Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine | SYSTEM UPDATE #109

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Wagner Group's March on Russia

Vladimir Putin is now exposed to someone who's very vulnerable that if you want to be a dictator you cannot have people who stand up to you and threaten you in that way and don't pay a price. Based on the evidence I see I find it hard to believe that this is going to weaken Putin. Progosian was the only senior person involved in this coup there's no evidence that I see that anyone else went along with him or intended to go along with him so he looks pretty much like a lone wolf. There do not appear to be any other key figures in the Russian policy elite who were with him  so he's not that great a threat by himself.

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