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No Way Out: Why Negotiations Won’t End the War Soon

Geopolitics Decanted with Dmitri Alperovitch

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Is Putin a Man Who Trusts Easily?

Vladimir Putin almost never fires anyone, unless you're disloyal. He seems to go to great extremes in that regard where he doesn't hold anyone accountable. In part, it is a primal sense of basically, if you make it into my gang, then that's it. I've got your back. The only person who's made it into Putin's inner circle isn't either a KGB buddy or a St Petersburg buddy.

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