You'd have to know very little about how Russia *actually* works to believe that Putin would welcome the precedent of political street violence & mobs storming government buildings.

Especially in a country like the US, which the Russian opposition follows intensely. https://t.co/sfW2Wbd5yf

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) January 7, 2021

If Putin couldn't get the result he wanted in Moldova it's weird how he can control the world's greatest democracy.

— Simon Murdoch (@SimonMurdoch5) January 6, 2021
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