“Just this [past] week the Kremlin claimed it was at war with the United States and Putin’s No.1 enemy was found dead in prison. Russians are terrified about what’s next.”
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Putin’s spokesman informed Russians this [past] week that … [Russia’s] ‘special military operation’ … was set to go on much longer because it is now ‘a war against the collective West.’ That’s right: a war. It was remarkable to hear that word from … Dmitry Peskov. Journalists were explicitly banned from using it as the invasion began and thousands of Russians have been detained, fined and imprisoned for telling the truth about a war … now … raging for almost two years. … The rhetorical escalation came in the same week that Alexei Navalny, Putin’s biggest domestic challenger, died in a Russian penal colony in mysterious circumstances. Weeks before the presidential election, the autocrat is flexing his muscles. … 
By ‘collective West’ the Kremlin traditionally means 31 NATO countries and the 28 nations of the European Union. ‘This is a war when the countries of the collective West, led by the United States are directly involved in the conflict,’ Peskov said. …”
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