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Of Course Putin Is Being Canceled

And that’s a good thing.
Source: Oliver Munday / The Atlantic

Perhaps the time has come for Vladimir Putin to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast, because Russia has been canceled. Following the , governments and companies around the world have distanced themselves from Russia and its citizens. “The West is not just trying to surround Russia with a new Iron Curtain,” its director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, . “We are talking about attempts to destroy our state—its ‘cancellation,’ as it is now customary to say in a ‘tolerant’ liberal-fascist environment.” The theme was echoed in the United States. “Russia is now being canceled,” the former Trump official Monica Crowley said on . “The West is trying to deplatform and debank Russia,” far-right Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers on Twitter. “This is just as wrong as

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