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If Putin Is Being Less Dumb About Ukraine, We’re in Trouble
After months of making poor decisions, he may have stumbled into a strategy for dragging out the misery.
Smart. Not like everybody says, like dumb.
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One bad thing about autocrats, aside from all the human-rights violations and murder and whatnot, is that they are just not very good at running things. They defenestrate critics until they are left with only yes men who guffaw at their cringey jokes and rubber-stamp their disastrous invasions and social-media takeovers.