Rational Security: The “Mutiny in the Kitchen” Edition
The Lawfare Podcast
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Putin's Choice to Avoid Intense Short Term Destabilization
CNN's John Defterios asks if Putin has traded short-term destabilization for much longer term destabilization in not crushing this column of soldiers who were moving on to Moscow. I think it's hard to say and there were these competing interests in terms of quashing the challenge to his regime, but at the same time, recognizing that large parts of society saw the fighters as part of the patriotic front. To have blasted them to smithereens on the outskirts of Moscow would have sent an even more complicated message through the system," he says.
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