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Phillip de Wet | Russia is going feral. 20% of South Africans apparently think it is the good guy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin. Several opposition parties are wildly supportive of Russia, writes the author. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova / POOL / AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Several opposition parties are wildly supportive of Russia, writes the author. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova / POOL / AFP)

Even if the ANC were unseated, a coalition government will find itself on the Russian side of what increasingly looks like Cold War II, writes Phillip de Wet

Russia is a little like climate change. We have all the information we need to see where things are going and just how awful the future is going to be. But the change was at first so gradual and then so fast that it is hard to comprehend.

Now, a politically significant number of people are holding back necessary changes because they just can't come to grips with the changed reality. 

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