The West is complicit in strengthening Putin's grip on power by removing regime change from the table—refusing to foment color revolutions or support covert operations to undermine the regime—because this reduces pressure on the regime and allows it to believe it can 'get away with murder,' while paradoxically the West is still blamed for intervention anyway.
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Stephen KotkinEvidence Quote
“We take regime change off the table...And the problem with that is that they blame us anyway. So we get charged for the crime, which we don't actually commit...if you're not pressuring the regime sufficiently, the regime feels it can get away with murder.”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:22:55 PM
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