Despite the extreme concentration of power in the hands of Vladimir Putin, responsibility for key political decisions in Russia’s personalised autocracy is systematically blurred, shifted onto circumstances, history, and the collective will. In his rhetoric, war is not presented as a choice, but as an inevitability. This is no accident – it is the result of a deliberate linguistic strategy that obscures agency, diffuses responsibility, and legitimises violence as the outcome of history rather

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