Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall. This isn’t even trying.

I’m just blown away by the gullible fools who see this dying totalitarian dystopia with statistics around birth and family life that are way worse than anything in the West as a beacon of resistance to decadence or something.

Of course I guess this isn’t new with Russia. Back in the Cold War it was naive elements of the left and now it’s naive elements of the right. They seem to excel at marketing themselves to the deeply disaffected. But there’s nothing there but a Potemkin village.

The Gulag Archipelago should be required reading.