vitalik.eth(@VitalikButerin):There continues to be a lot of quiet dissent against the regime, which expresses itself any time some kind of channel appears (in this case, the "election" taking place right now) (The goal is not to literally get Putin to politely step off his chair; the election is of course manipulated to hell on multiple levels, and even if he loses he will just ignore it. Rather, the realistic goal is to delegitimize the regime as much as possible, denying it the internal cohesion it needs to pursue the "total war" path so that it has no choice but to take the peace path)

2026.09.21 10:10

There continues to be a lot of quiet dissent against the regime, which expresses itself any time some kind of channel appears (in this case, the "election" taking place right now) (The goal is not to literally get Putin to politely step off his chair; the election is of course manipulated to hell on multiple levels, and even if he loses he will just ignore it. Rather, the realistic goal is to delegitimize the regime as much as possible, denying it the internal cohesion it needs to pursue the "total war" path so that it has no choice but to take the peace path)