Like all dictators, Vladimir Putin is terrified of being overthrown by his people.
Keeping his popularity high among average Russians is a priority for him, and from 2014 to 2018 he was king of the mountain.
To keep that going in 2018 he announced an exciting new nuclear-powered nuclear missile.
But that's where things started to go wrong.
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The world is on fire. There's a coup. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
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