I'm glad to see many items on my Stop Putin Checklist are being ticked off. Putin is being isolated in a way that ordinary Russians cannot ignore, despite the blizzard of propaganda that will grow more desperate and obvious every day.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1496865471995523080
The price to remove Putin will be high because it has gone up every time he went unpunished before. The price will be borne by Russians, Americans, & Europeans. But Ukraine is paying in blood and their sacrifice must not be in vain. We cannot return to the status quo.
How does Putin fall? A million Russians in Red Square? A palace coup of military or security? An oligarch's rebellion? All of the above. It must be apparent that Putin is an obstacle to their goals, whether of power, liberty, or prosperity.
Dictators rule by fear and the threat/promise that every alternative is worse. That calculus can be changed. Don't give off-ramps to Putin. Give off-ramps to Russia after Putin, to Russians who will abandon him for the good of the nation and world.
Until now, Russian judges, commanders, siloviki, business elites, et al never had to choose between the life they wanted and Putin. Most Russians never felt they had any choices at all. Make them choose and they won't choose Putin.
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