Saturday, March 12, 2022

Ukraine, Russia, and the Perils of Despotism

This fits my preconceptions so well that I'm almost concerned. 

There's a few things I would question, but the repeated points about how despotic rule is fairly incompetent (at everything except surviving) are things I fully agree with, for many of the reasons mentioned here.

It also touches on the resource curse, and how oil shelters Putin from the normal consequences of bad government.

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