This is a teaser of this week's Gaslit Nation early show,

available for subscribers at the truth-teller level and higher on Patreon.

This week's episode is called Has Putin Lost His Mind?

Putin has been in power since New Year's Eve, 1999.

So that's 22 years.

And this always happens.

If you look at any dictatorship in the world, the longer that they remain in power, the more insular, their circle becomes, the more paranoid, the dictator becomes, and the more

divorced from geopolitical reality they become, even if they do possess geopolitical acumen,

you know, which Putin does. You know, he's a strategist, but he's a strategist who has been in

this bubble, who has purged his rivals, who has packed his

courts with sycophants and lackeys, and packed his advisory committees with people like that,

you know, which we saw in the video today. And when that happens, that's a dangerous situation,

both for the world that is at the mercy of this dictator, but as Andrea is saying,

for the dictator themselves, because, you know, they could do anything and they could face

enormous potential blowback from their country. You know, the reason that they often don't

is, of course, because after decades of brutal authoritarian rule,

a country is conditioned to not fight back because they know the consequences.

The police or militia or, you know, local authorities are conditioned to never challenge higher

authorities because they know the consequences.

And, you know, and that system is in place.

Like, you know, Andrea brought up someone who had left Russia in 2012 since then, you know,

the attack on free media, the attack on, you know, like internet communication, the jailing

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