Max Seddon

for their husbands being injured or killed at the front, they all go shopping. And there has been a consumer boom in Russia that has been driven in large part by this war spending. So that doesn't mean that there isn't a part of Russian society that is actively against the war, but it's never been the majority. The majority has always been passive society.

for their husbands being injured or killed at the front, they all go shopping. And there has been a consumer boom in Russia that has been driven in large part by this war spending. So that doesn't mean that there isn't a part of Russian society that is actively against the war, but it's never been the majority. The majority has always been passive society.

for their husbands being injured or killed at the front, they all go shopping. And there has been a consumer boom in Russia that has been driven in large part by this war spending. So that doesn't mean that there isn't a part of Russian society that is actively against the war, but it's never been the majority. The majority has always been passive society.

And the people who are actively against the war have been very effectively suppressed. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of political prisoners. We know people like Navalny and some of the dissidents who were freed in the Evan Gershkovich exchange, like Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Karamurza.

And the people who are actively against the war have been very effectively suppressed. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of political prisoners. We know people like Navalny and some of the dissidents who were freed in the Evan Gershkovich exchange, like Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Karamurza.

And the people who are actively against the war have been very effectively suppressed. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of political prisoners. We know people like Navalny and some of the dissidents who were freed in the Evan Gershkovich exchange, like Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Karamurza.

But there are hundreds and hundreds of ordinary people in the far-flung bits of Russia who just got picked up because police have a quota. They said something on social media or at a bus stop or in some sort of private setting. And someone informed on them and they're now in prison serving these often very draconian sentences. So any kind of real opposition to how things are.

But there are hundreds and hundreds of ordinary people in the far-flung bits of Russia who just got picked up because police have a quota. They said something on social media or at a bus stop or in some sort of private setting. And someone informed on them and they're now in prison serving these often very draconian sentences. So any kind of real opposition to how things are.

But there are hundreds and hundreds of ordinary people in the far-flung bits of Russia who just got picked up because police have a quota. They said something on social media or at a bus stop or in some sort of private setting. And someone informed on them and they're now in prison serving these often very draconian sentences. So any kind of real opposition to how things are.

uh going on is uh pretty much impossible and for the opposition that are outside the country they're they're in a very sad state right now uh because um The longer this goes on, the greater disconnect they have with Russian society. They have been largely unable to swing that. Navalny's death was obviously an enormous blow.

uh going on is uh pretty much impossible and for the opposition that are outside the country they're they're in a very sad state right now uh because um The longer this goes on, the greater disconnect they have with Russian society. They have been largely unable to swing that. Navalny's death was obviously an enormous blow.

uh going on is uh pretty much impossible and for the opposition that are outside the country they're they're in a very sad state right now uh because um The longer this goes on, the greater disconnect they have with Russian society. They have been largely unable to swing that. Navalny's death was obviously an enormous blow.

And for those of you who have read about the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks and the various other

And for those of you who have read about the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks and the various other

And for those of you who have read about the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks and the various other

anti-Tsarist leftist groups in the early 20th century in exile or Soviet dissidents won't come as a surprise that they seem to spend most of their time fighting each other over various slights and perceived differences and things like that that are just a really big turnoff to the average Russian or the average, whether they're in Russia or exile. I think it's also worth making the point

anti-Tsarist leftist groups in the early 20th century in exile or Soviet dissidents won't come as a surprise that they seem to spend most of their time fighting each other over various slights and perceived differences and things like that that are just a really big turnoff to the average Russian or the average, whether they're in Russia or exile. I think it's also worth making the point

anti-Tsarist leftist groups in the early 20th century in exile or Soviet dissidents won't come as a surprise that they seem to spend most of their time fighting each other over various slights and perceived differences and things like that that are just a really big turnoff to the average Russian or the average, whether they're in Russia or exile. I think it's also worth making the point

that really one of the most active groups in Russian society in trying to make sure that the truth about the war that gets out, it has been the media. And one thing you're seeing at the moment with Trump's attack on USAID, firstly, that so much of the exiled population

that really one of the most active groups in Russian society in trying to make sure that the truth about the war that gets out, it has been the media. And one thing you're seeing at the moment with Trump's attack on USAID, firstly, that so much of the exiled population