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the russian security state sees what happened in ukraine as an existential threat and is acting accordingly. The reaction to all of this would have been far worse with anyone OTHER than putin in power, he is in many ways a reserved (taoist lol) moderate. He should have regulated this bullshit in 2016 in my uneducated opinion. He didnt however for probably many good reasons, he even whistled back the loyalists at the time.