Though neither Russia nor the United States seeks a nuclear war, it’s at least possible that they could slide into one.
, Russia’s most prominent dissident and the person most likely to lead a grassroots rebellion against him.
So, if Russians do protest en masse , it must be thanks to instigation from abroad, as was supposedly true in adjoining countries like Georgia during its 2003 Rose Revolution, Kyrgyzstan during its 2005 Tulip Revolution, and Ukraine during its Orange Revolution that same year.
The problem: none of this explains why the war broke out when it did. Russia wasn’t then being roiled by protests; Putin’s position was rock-solid; and his party, United Russia, had no true rivals. Indeed, the only others with significant followings, relatively speaking, the Communist Party and the Liberal Democracy Party , were aligned with the state.
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