GEORGE MONBIOT
Truss preaches a toxic gospel of economics
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he Ukrainians have (again) done what nobody believed they could. They have (again) defeated the supposedly mighty Russia on the battlefield, and shown up the underlying incompetence and moral rot of the Putin system. It took them just six days to take back whole swathes of territory in north-eastern Ukraine that it took Russia six months to conquer. The Russian military, political and propaganda elites are all blaming each other: rifts that usually rumble under the surface are now visible to all. Putin looks
