International Politics

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I find it fascinating that lots of people are saying: "Woah, I can't believe this is happening in Russia" when this is basically how it has always been, except for the few years their leader was too drunk to effectively manage the police state or the few times they needed friends to prevent a total collapse of the motherland (early Putin rule, Gorbachev). 

And Russian regimes always collapse the same way, fighting an ill conceived war to distract the population that they can't win as easily as they had hoped.