The Dock on the Bay
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The Dock on the Bay

James Marinero

Mar 15

6 min read

Politics and the Ukraine War

How Far is Putin from a Putsch?

It’s not as easy as changing 3 letters

Image Credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Putin…

Put…

Putsch.

If only it were that simple to replace a dictator.

It takes planning and preparation, nerves of steel and steel. Or poison. Or a biological weapon…

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