another aspect of this is that there were millions of moderate liberals in russia that became ziggers out of pure spite. people that would have decamped to the west if the opportunity was available were unable to due things like butthurt belter screeching precluding the possibility of some visa regime to get these liberal russians to move to the eu or how mcfaul was kvetching about how there were "no innocent russians" at the start of the war
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