When Strongmen Get Desperate: Putin Declares War on the West

Welcome back to Lucid! I have unlocked this essay I published in October for paying subscribers on Putin’s “anti-imperialism,” which reminds me Mussolini’s fake claims to be a liberator, and Putin’s increasing desperation.

"Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory." This April 2 statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine by Kremlin in…