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1 hour agoThe Hollow Trickery of "The Wizard of the Kremlin"
The film turns political history into character-driven storytelling, treating major atrocities as incidental anecdotes rather than sustained context.
Russian elites are extremely unhappy because Putin is not taking Trump's offer. This was very clearly seen at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. They're actually telling Putin stories that the Russian economy is about to plunge into recession, which I don't think is the case.