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One of the glories of free societies is that information travels freely and mostly unencumbered. Most anyone in an open society has the advantage of seeing what Putin and his nation cannot. So even though he has initiated the human catastrophe of the Ukraine war, he and many Russians may still know little of the horrors that have been unleashed. As the New York Times’ Tom Friedman recently noted, “Putin, it turns out, no clue what world he was living in, no clue about the frailties of his own system, no clue how much the whole free, democratic world could and would join the fight against him in Ukraine, and no clue, most of all, about how many people would be watching.” Meanwhile, most of the gains Russia achieved in the last 20 years are being rolled back by sanctions imposed by the world’s democracies.īy contrast, ordinary citizens in most of the rest of the developed world could fill him about the aimless marauding of the Russian Army. But it seems worse this time, with many of his aides apparently willing to be the bearer of bad news. The Russian dictator is notorious for keeping his own council. One of the glories of an open society is that information travels easily and mostly unencumbered.Īmerican intelligence reports note that Vladimir Putin has functionally locked himself and his nation behind a media firewall, afraid to let his citizens hear what the world knows. Anyone in an open society has the advantage of seeing what Putin and his nation cannot.
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