Mark Galeotti

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The General & The Journalist · Crimea under pressure: Will Putin lash out? · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And although, look, historians can and do quibble with much of what Putin says, he is the worst kind of historian, the sort who knows the argument he wants to prove and then just simply picks the evidence that seems to support it.

But nonetheless, you know, what we have is this idea that Crimea is a strategic location, that it is a point of national pride, and that it is also of immense spiritual value.

Putting all that together, that's quite a price tag.

Well, I mean, two different things.

I mean, FedUp and Boiling Point.

So address the FedUp.

Look, this was not a war that Russians had been asking for.

It's not as though in January 2022, people were invading against Putin saying, well, why hasn't he invaded Ukraine already?

They were, in some cases, perfectly willing to be convinced after the event by Putin's propaganda that this is actually a necessary war.

But very much central to that was a sense of an implicit social contract, which is, look, you don't protest about the war, even though many Russians did protest.

But anyway, you don't protest about the war and the war will not really affect you.

After all, this is a war that is fought by volunteers.

Volunteers are offered huge sums of money to sign up.

And therefore, on the whole, they have come from the impoverished parts of the country.

It's not been the metropolitan Muscovites and so forth who go and fight.

And to a considerable degree, let's be clear, many people were willing to accept that or at least not buck against the trend because you knew that, on the other hand, if you did protest, then you would very quickly be targeted by the security forces and could face some very, very serious punishments for you and indeed for your family.

Now, what we find, though, is that implicit social contract has been broken.

We have food prices going up.

I mean, what, your average Russian is spending about 40% of their take-home budget on food.

And now we have the issue of petrol.

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