The Former Supreme Commander of NATO on Putin's Next Move
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Is It Russia's Cleptocratic Regime?
We had plenty of warning, but in a way, our governments chose to shut their eyes and hope that things might be different. And you know, therein lies the origin of the seriousness of the problems that we now face. I would start by saying a long, long tradition of unitary domination by solitary malefi s i've just summarized, two thousand years of russian history. Sometimes you get peter the great, and he pulls russia into the enlightenment ad leans to the west. But another time you get ivan the terrible.
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