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5 things to know about Russian imperialism | Ep. 201

Explaining Ukraine

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Putinism Is a Play With the Future

Putin is talking about as if Russia would be present kind of vital force and if it possesses the future. Putinism is a kind of a brashnivism 2.0, it's a regime of an old leader with all the elites who are in the 60s and the 70s. They look at Ukraine with a relatively young leader and young people around him and say well this is decadent. In this imperialistic vision actually empires always say that look future is ours, we bring future to you, you are only condemned to be in the past.

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