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Putin's People by Katherine Beltan

I would read a book. There's a book by Katherine Beltan called Putin's People that is about Putin's rise to power and the kleptocracy that he built. Of course, you could read my book after the fall, but yes, which also covers Putin in Ukraine. But I will say Katherine's book is the kind of the best one I've seen on Putin's consent to where he's reached now. And so I essentially set out to answer the question of why everything was moving in the wrong direction politically in the world. Democratic values were always secondary to the pursuit of profit.

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