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    1 year ago

    Specifically, he thinks the only way to secure the country is to give tanks and “everything, everything” to the Russian National Guard. In other words, turn Putin’s private internal military / federal police into an actual full-fledged military.

    Putin intends the country to withdraw into itself in a paranoid stance, and create even more of a police state than already exists, and purge any/all dissent. The formal military itself is essentially disgraced and powerless at this point, the new enemy is anyone who is disloyal to Putin personally.