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These Times - Chaos in Russia

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Shoygu Wins the Bureaucratic War Against Putin

Putin as I understand it is looking even in this sort of partial mobilization, it's falling largely on the poor and ethnic minorities within Russia and near abroad. He says in one of these speeches we've got to hear that the fatness of the children of the elite will end with people lifting them up on pitchforks. That's an extraordinary image. It is basically saying is that in some sense the unfairness of the way in which the war is being fought are going to destroy the regime. This was what sparked Progosion's march of justice I think he called it on Moscow.

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