Overreach Quotes

“Everything we thought we shared with the civilised world was borrowed. Moscow literary editor Varvara Babitskaya, February 2022”
― Owen Matthews, Overreach

“War but were raised on heroic cinematic myths of the unity, nobility and purification that came of fighting a just war against the forces of evil. War would create a new Russia grounded in patriotism and sacrifice, not the selfish pursuit of comfort and prosperity. Above”
― Owen Matthews, Overreach

“Though neither Putin’s siloviki – nor even ultra-conservative philosophers like Aleksandr Dugin – would put it in these terms, a war of national salvation was the only force powerful enough to stop the encroachment of the modern world and radically cut the country off from the West.”
― Owen Matthews, Overreach