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		MattGaiser on Feb 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders a... Russia is not a democracy. What its people want is irrelevant. They have no meaningful agency.

8note on Feb 24, 2022 [–]

Even without democracy, governments need some amount of agreement from its populace to do things

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