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One of the first steps towards what could be an eventual civil war and Putin ending up like Ceaucescu or Mussolini, if things go very badly for them in Ukraine and economically.

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Or they go full dictatorship. I would say, this looks like the likely path..

Didn’t that happen in the early 2000s?

The way things seem, their stock market isn't going to be reopening anytime soon. So I'd say economically things are going very badly already.

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