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In Moscow's Shadows 98: Dogs of War (and Racoons)

In Moscow's Shadows

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Putin's Russia Is Becoming an Authoritarian Mobilization State

The war is basically becoming the primary organizing principle of Putin's state. In many ways, this ties into a whole fraught body of debate about whether or not Putin's Russia is fascist. I see quite a few connections with Mussolini's rather more sort of populist form of fascism.

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