01-26-2024, 11:28 PM
Russia is clearly in a Crisis era. Most people expected Russian armed forces to steamroller their way through Ukraine, with the result of making Ukraine at best a satellite state or compelling its incorporation into some Russian-dominated federation.
Remember well: despotic figures do not mellow with age. They might weaken, but thatis not the same thing.
Remember well: despotic figures do not mellow with age. They might weaken, but thatis not the same thing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.