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Putin's Response to the Aborted Mutiny
The broader question is whether Putin will change how he is prosecuting the war in response to internal political pressure. My understanding from sort of political science literature is that a very standard playbook for authoritarians when they experience internal challenges is to take even more aggressive foreign policy actions. That's what I'm worried about. After Pragoshan, my mind paranoid as it is, immediately goes to the use of tactical nuclear weapons or some other horrible escalation that I haven't even thought of.