Edward Carr
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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He was a global citizen.
He's now back in Russia.
And what happens in Russia affects him directly.
And so he feels he's got to do something about it.
Well, my view is that what's changed is that the Ukrainian deep campaign has started to affect mass feeling in Russia.
For most of the war, Russians have just kind of shut it out of their minds.
They haven't want to think about the war.
Well, the deep strikes are affecting ordinary life, most directly through fuel shortages, big queues.
We've seen videos of bus stops and fistfights at petrol stations.
At the same time, Crimea, a big success for Putin when he annexed it in 2014, is now isolated again.
Bloggers have started to speak out.
There's just a feeling that the stalemate is becoming a real problem.
The war seems futile and unending, and that is producing discontent.
Now, Putin has to respond to that, and I think Milonchenko is worried that he responds to it by escalating and repressing, and that's something he's desperate to avoid.
And it's not as if Russia's about to rise up.
It isn't a popular revolution or something.
That's not what's happening.
What's happening here is an understanding of futility, an understanding that Putin's got to respond and that if he responds in the wrong way, people like Melnichenko and other oligarchs fear this could go very, very badly for them.
We've always thought right from the beginning of this war, if there was a stalemate in the front, the war would be decided in Moscow.
And I haven't been able to see the mechanism.
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