Resources are already stretched pretty thin with the actual war going on. There’s going to be a moment when there’s no money for repression machine. That wasn’t realistic before, but now, with various sanctions, it is.
Have you looked at North Korea?
Do you know of any historical examples where governments being short of money led to less repression?
Have you looked at North Korea?
Do you know of any historical examples where governments being short of money led to less repression?
Money also doesn’t appear to be stretched thin: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/53559/did-the-russian-government-have-a-20-billion-euro-budget-surplus-in-the-first-has