Paranoid reality denial will escalate with every setback, just as with the Nazis after the failed July 20 plot.
Dual genocide is a feature, not a bug, of Muscovy's commodity extraction kleptocracy. Putin is a composite of all his most prominent predecessors: Ivan Grozny, Peter, Catherine the Saxon courtesan, Nicholas I, Alexander III, Stalin.
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