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The Implications of Not a Forever War
Russia is planning a forever war carries with the sense that you not only accept but actually want it to go on interminably. I don't think they're actually thinking this is great this war is exactly what we need, he says. Putin's regime has all sorts of other ways of justifying doing the things that they wanted to do without having a war and so forth. He thinks there is a keen awareness of the degree to which the war is bringing pressures to bear which are slowly deforming Russian system in dangerous ways.