The Russia That Might Have Been.
But wasn't.
Good piece, though, from @AlexGabuev.
I've thought for 30 years V.S. Naipaul's Among the Believers (on Iran) described a fundamentalist rejectionist path Russia might take. Seems it has.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russia-might-have-been?utm_medium=social
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1635419567634931712