The Playbook

The formula for saving any dictatorship is universal: create an enemy, start a war. The state of war is the regime’s elixir of life. A nation in patriotic ecstasy becomes one with its “national leader”, while dissenters can be declared “national traitors”.

(Mikhail Shishkin, Russian writer, referring to his own country, September 2014)

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