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by networkid 1296 days ago
The same can be said about US, EU,China... Where social polarization already so close to the red line so it could bring the states into ungovernable, militarized, chsotic formations...
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The US has seen far worse periods of social polarization. And not even that far in the distant past: the red scare(s), the Civil Rights Movement(s) and the anti-war movement during Vietnam were periods of far worse internal strife. And to be frank, even Russia today doesn't have anything near the level of internal dissent the US had during the height of anti-Vietnam protests.
> Russia today doesn't have anything near the level of internal dissent

Today's Maxim Katz video argues that "the war party" exists only in Kremlin, and with fall of Putin and his closest allies, everybody else in Russia won't be interested in war, which is good.