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I think this is how Boris Yeltsin ran the Russian government in the 1990s... so many interesting similarities.
by photochemsyn 2y ago
I think this is how Boris Yeltsin ran the Russian government in the 1990s... so many interesting similarities.
- TheAlchemist 2y agoOh, I was actually wrong. It's not coming next week, it's coming this week: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-09-25/card/trump-says-he-will-consider-exempting-some-u-s-companies-from-tariffs-BXfdUETG5o197ZivMbn0 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-... I would say it's even more brazen than Russia in the 90s. It's all done in the open, in the face of the institutions that were supposed to limit his power.
- stevenwoo 2y agoI’m reading The Narrow Corridor and it also reminds me of parts about not only Russia but the nation of Georgia under Shevardnadze. One of the authors already commented two months ago in this paywalled article https://www.ft.com/content/4e3f1731-3d63-4b31-88ce-c3f5157d8170 https://www.ft.com/content/4e3f1731-3d63-4b31-88ce-c3f5157d8...