As tens of thousands flee their homes in border region, many say government downplayed threat of invasion
  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    But putin didn’t even have to work that hard to consolidate power- all the tools of authoritarianism fell into his lap.

    Are we still pretending Putin wasn’t behind to the FSB blowing up apartment buildings in Moscow in a false flag operation to justify a brutal war in Chechnya? That’s how he consolidated his authoritarian power, seems like a bit of work to me.