RUSSIA | S03 07 - Putin goes nuclear to retain his popularity

from If You're Listening · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Like all dictators, Vladimir Putin is terrified of being overthrown by his people.Keeping his popularity high among average Russians is a priority for him, and from 2014 to 2018 he was king of the mountain.To keep that going in 2018 he announced an exciting new nuclear-powered nuclear missile.But that's where things started to go wrong.

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