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only 20 percent of the population support the war enthusiastically, while about 20 percent oppose the war. The latter is, of course, repressed. Most of the rest of the society is passive and depoliticized, tolerating the status quo.
✏️ What a population thinks like under an oppressive regime. 🔗 View Highlight
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His dictatorship oversees extreme inequality. To enforce that, it suppresses any democratic tendencies at home and abroad. That puts Ukraine, which has deep connections with ordinary Russians, in Putin’s crosshairs. He fears that if Ukraine becomes a free, democratic, and prosperous state, it will spread dangerous ideas among Russians. That’s why Ukraine’s popular revolution in 2014 was a nightmare for Putin. In response, he sent troops to seize Crimea and Donbass to incapacitate the country. He expanded the war in 2022 to eliminate Ukraine as a democratic alternative to the Russian autocracy.
✏️ Why Putin is adamant about Ukraine. Why a dictator would quash things happening outside his country.. it provides an alternative to his rule and gives ideas that can’t be tolerated or allowed to foment. 👓 politics character 🔗 View Highlight