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COLUMN World War 3 Has Come to Your Hometown

Attacks by authoritarian national governments on their own cities aren't just local conflicts. They constitute a global war.

Jamaima Afridi for Asia Democracy Chronicles, courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles. (Jamaima is also that story's author)

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Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, at World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 2009. Photo by Remy Steinegger, for World Economic Forum, via Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3488093359 and Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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