russia’s New Fear Factor
by Andrei Kolesnikov
How the War Is Driving a Wave of Purges and Suicides Among the Country’s Elites
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russias-new-fear-factor
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Helping someone rise to power is not only no guarantee of safety, it makes one very possibly the greatest threat to that person.
Once you're in power, it's safer to surround yourself with people who just plain lack the competence for such machinations. Say, a blundering drunkard as Defense Secretary, a vacillating weakling at State...
