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Amid the welcome attention to the sentencing of my friend and colleague Kara-Murza, the sentence itself reveals much about the Putin regime true nature. Merging treason & speech against the state was done previously only in Stalin's USSR and Nazi Germany.
https://twitter.com/SenatorWicker/status/1649043903415304195
Even with Navalny's blatantly political persecution, the regime went to some effort to make up charges, from embezzlement to murder. That final mask has dropped, and @vkaramurza was sentenced explicitly for criticizing the state. It's a message.
When I started warning the world of Putin's desire to return Russia to totalitarianism, Condoleezza Rice was among many "experts" whose response was "Well, it's not as bad as the USSR". Now it's persecution beyond Brezhnev's day, not seen since Stalin.
Putin's regime also wants to strip citizenship from dissenters and to remove the constitution's prohibition against ideology. The message is to Russians and the world: de facto fascism is clearing the way for official totalitarian fascism.
Dithering about giving full support to Ukraine to win as quickly as possible and speed the demise of Putin's regime can now be seen clearly as openly aiding the rise of a new fascist empire. The stakes are going up. Urgency is required.
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