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No. 3 on Russia and its threat is almost accurate down to the word. If you replace “quasicommunist” with “authoritarian dictatorship” (not a stretch) it represe
by labster 4y ago
No. 3 on Russia and its threat is almost accurate down to the word. If you replace “quasicommunist” with “authoritarian dictatorship” (not a stretch) it represents the world as we know it.
- akomtu 4y agoTechnocommunism is the word.
- the_biot 4y agoI'm pretty amazed they called Russia. It wasn't clear to me at that time that Russia would become an out and out gangster state, even if the economy had turned into an oligarchy by then. It wasn't until some years after Putin came to power, when it became clear he really was a gangster running a country.
- ianai 4y agoIt’s kind of an extension of the resource curse.
- bigodbiel 4y agoHalf and half: nationalist mafia!