I’ll note that the NYT changed the title from “Putin is Hunting Down Ordinary People” to “Putin Is Doing Something Almost Nobody Is Noticing”
I’ll note that the NYT changed the title from “Putin is Hunting Down Ordinary People” to “Putin Is Doing Something Almost Nobody Is Noticing”
Apart from the pure evilness, think about the level of pettiness shown here.
Putin invests probably millions and thousands of agents for what exactly? Revenge on a handful of people who silently left?
It’s exactly how KGB worked. It’s not that everyone would be caught, or everyone was a KGB agent, it was about instilling fear so that everyone would behave out of fear of disappearing.