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Listen to This Essay: Why we’re so clueless about Putin

Mainstream media, rather than fight the cognitive biases that impede clear view of an enemy, surrender to them.

 
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Why we’re so clueless about Putin
Over the weekend, while processing the Ukrainian army’s big breakthrough and the Russian army’s headlong retreat, I came across a tweet that said this: On Russian state TV, Moscow State University professor Vitaly Tretyakov said (and I'm paraphrasing): “The West thinks there will be social unrest in Russia in order to make the war stop. In reality, the…
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