2026-10-21 · The Guardian
🔮 Skim through Russia’s past wartime exploits, the bombing campaigns in Chechnya and Georgia and Syria, to the thousands of Russian citizens jailed for dissent, to the violent deaths of prominent opposition journalists and politicians in barely disguised assassinations and poisonings – and it will be difficult to identify Putin’s credentials as a humanitarian.
And that is before looking to Ukraine, where Russia chose to launch a full-scale invasion that has now claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. assertive
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