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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutins Real Long Game
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/putins-real-long-game-214589From beginning to end, the operation took three months. This is how the Russian security state shook off the controls of political councils or representative democracy. This is how it thinks and how it acts then, and now. Blood or war might be required, but controlling information and the national response to that information is what matters. Many Russians, scarred by the unrelenting economic, social, and security hardship of the 1990s, welcomed the rise of the security state, and still widely support it, even as it has hollowed out the Russian economy and civic institutions. Today, as a result, Russia is little more than a ghastly hybrid of an overblown police state and a criminal network with an economy the size of Italy and the worlds largest nuclear arsenal.
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Putins Real Long Game (Original Post)
Swede
Jan 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)1. I used to think the Russian people were victims.
Not sure anymore.
We are in for a very quick transformation from who we were to who Putin wants us to be.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,766 posts)2. K&R.
Good to see you back.
Swede
(33,303 posts)3. Thanks.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,766 posts)4. You're welcome.