Russia is seeing a return to informer-based prosecution, where people denounce other people for dissenting thoughts. These “snitchings” that inform on others to law enforcement for statements against the war in Ukraine or other “political crimes” are landing people in penal colonies for years!
The way Trump fawns over Putin and wants to be like him, and the way he has said he will crack down on his political opponents, there is a very real possibility that this could happen in the United States.
