Interesting article in the Atlantic...
Putin Is Caught in His Own Trap
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After spending years cultivating public apathy, the Russian president found his people indifferent to his fate.
Democratic politicians spend a lot of time thinking about how to engage people and persuade them to vote. But a certain kind of autocrat, of whom Putin is the outstanding example, seeks to convince people of the opposite: not to participate, not to care, and not to follow politics at all. The propaganda used in Putin’s Russia has been designed in part for this purpose.
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Putin wanted the Russian electorate to be indifferent about who was running things. The reaction of the residents of Wagner occupied Rostov-on-Don, indicates he was successful. And this seems to be the reason why there's been no sign of Putin since his panicy little speech before heading out of town on Friday. He thought there was a real possibility that Moscow could fall to Progozhin.
And...what Trump would like to see, more than anything is an apathetic US electorate.