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Staged chaos: Russia’s real deterrent

Staged chaos: Russia’s real deterrent

Prigozhin mutiny creates political fragmentation bomb

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Jun 25, 2023
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Putin blinked. Prigozhin gets to run his neo-colonial crime empire from Belarus. Some generals will be fired. The war goes on. That’s the appearance. But what is the essence?

I’ve been depressed by the incapacity of the Western media to cope with the reality of Russian fascism over the past 24 hours, where the concept of appearance/essence is a vital ana…

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