Max Seddon

It amounts for nothing. And, you know, Putin could feel that he's essentially dealt with the NATO problem once and for all. And, you know, that is the scary problem. I think, you know, not that he wants to. You get these really extreme people in the Russian system like Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen dictator or people like that. who say, yeah, we want to drive to Poland on tanks.

It amounts for nothing. And, you know, Putin could feel that he's essentially dealt with the NATO problem once and for all. And, you know, that is the scary problem. I think, you know, not that he wants to. You get these really extreme people in the Russian system like Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen dictator or people like that. who say, yeah, we want to drive to Poland on tanks.

That is all for show. I don't want to say that he's not interested in empire and not interested in gathering the Russian lands like Peter the Great, because he is. But really, more than anything else, this is about the new world order for him. And I think that anything he does with regards to Europe will be achieving that.

That is all for show. I don't want to say that he's not interested in empire and not interested in gathering the Russian lands like Peter the Great, because he is. But really, more than anything else, this is about the new world order for him. And I think that anything he does with regards to Europe will be achieving that.

That is all for show. I don't want to say that he's not interested in empire and not interested in gathering the Russian lands like Peter the Great, because he is. But really, more than anything else, this is about the new world order for him. And I think that anything he does with regards to Europe will be achieving that.

Well, if you look at the dissatisfaction in Russia such as there has been any, it's mostly been with the economic impacts of the war rather than the actual war itself. There's a great Russian sociologist, Greg Yudin, who has this analogy that for most Russians, the war is like rain. You know, you don't like the rain.

Well, if you look at the dissatisfaction in Russia such as there has been any, it's mostly been with the economic impacts of the war rather than the actual war itself. There's a great Russian sociologist, Greg Yudin, who has this analogy that for most Russians, the war is like rain. You know, you don't like the rain.

Well, if you look at the dissatisfaction in Russia such as there has been any, it's mostly been with the economic impacts of the war rather than the actual war itself. There's a great Russian sociologist, Greg Yudin, who has this analogy that for most Russians, the war is like rain. You know, you don't like the rain.

You want to avoid it best as you can, but you think that it's this sort of, you know, being imposed on you externally that is completely beyond your control to do anything about. And that atomization has existed at Russian society for centuries because of the way that the state has been formed and reformed, the way that Russians have been ruled. It's very different from a country like Ukraine.

You want to avoid it best as you can, but you think that it's this sort of, you know, being imposed on you externally that is completely beyond your control to do anything about. And that atomization has existed at Russian society for centuries because of the way that the state has been formed and reformed, the way that Russians have been ruled. It's very different from a country like Ukraine.

You want to avoid it best as you can, but you think that it's this sort of, you know, being imposed on you externally that is completely beyond your control to do anything about. And that atomization has existed at Russian society for centuries because of the way that the state has been formed and reformed, the way that Russians have been ruled. It's very different from a country like Ukraine.

And in terms of what dissatisfaction that there could be over people dying in the war, you have to remember that it was mostly around mobilization when people were being forcibly drafted into the army. They were, you know, hundreds of thousands of them fled the country to try to escape that.

And in terms of what dissatisfaction that there could be over people dying in the war, you have to remember that it was mostly around mobilization when people were being forcibly drafted into the army. They were, you know, hundreds of thousands of them fled the country to try to escape that.

And in terms of what dissatisfaction that there could be over people dying in the war, you have to remember that it was mostly around mobilization when people were being forcibly drafted into the army. They were, you know, hundreds of thousands of them fled the country to try to escape that.

But now what they switched to and they've been able to do it pretty successfully and more or less replace men casualties at the front lines with new recruits. It is by paying people. You have these enormous payouts that are. bigger than a year's salary on average in a lot of these pretty poor regions where most of the recruiting is concentrated.

But now what they switched to and they've been able to do it pretty successfully and more or less replace men casualties at the front lines with new recruits. It is by paying people. You have these enormous payouts that are. bigger than a year's salary on average in a lot of these pretty poor regions where most of the recruiting is concentrated.

But now what they switched to and they've been able to do it pretty successfully and more or less replace men casualties at the front lines with new recruits. It is by paying people. You have these enormous payouts that are. bigger than a year's salary on average in a lot of these pretty poor regions where most of the recruiting is concentrated.

And that combined with the low value that's been placed on human life in Russian society, that has encouraged a lot of people to sign up. And if you go on Instagram and TikTok, there's this whole subgenre of posts of the wives of these guys on the days that the payments come in for when they're fighting or when they get the payments for

And that combined with the low value that's been placed on human life in Russian society, that has encouraged a lot of people to sign up. And if you go on Instagram and TikTok, there's this whole subgenre of posts of the wives of these guys on the days that the payments come in for when they're fighting or when they get the payments for

And that combined with the low value that's been placed on human life in Russian society, that has encouraged a lot of people to sign up. And if you go on Instagram and TikTok, there's this whole subgenre of posts of the wives of these guys on the days that the payments come in for when they're fighting or when they get the payments for