The Consent to Be Dominated

"I would rather die on my own terms and end the human pageant through my experience," he says. "If everybody dies with me, then I will avoid judgment now and forever in the minds of future people because there won't be any" Putin knows that full enthrallment is inexorable for a nation to international capital,. It's not losing in battle, it's being changed into a condition of servitude where a certain fundamental element of our sense of self worth and identity is taken from us by our consent."