Paranoia And Putin

A tanker truck was destroyed by “unknown saboteurs” in Moscow yesterday. At the same time a spasm of saboteurs attacked military facilities in Russia’s Moscow and Kaluga oblasts. Earlier in the day a drone struck an administrative building in the regional capital. In the previous week saboteurs hit an airbase 30 km outside of Moscow, blowing up two jets and a helicopter. That happened just after a drone strike decapitated Russia’s naval command in Sevastopol and another strike took out a submarine and Russia’s only drydock repair facility in the Black Sea.

If Russia was a person they would be diagnosed with a muscle control disorder; an inability to coordinate movements. Its muscles — its people — cannot even spot and stop teams of outsiders who lurk around guarded facilities and strike at will.

Its condition is personified and projected from its leader, Putin. He has been at war against Russia for decades.

“No ruling group likes to admit that it can govern its people only by regarding and treating them as criminals,” wrote George F. Kennan in 1951. “For this reason there is always a tendency to justify internal oppression by pointing to the menacing iniquity of the outside world.”

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