Russia takes the Chinese Route to Authoritarian Capitalism? Interesting. So we s

Russia takes the Chinese Route to Authoritarian Capitalism?

Interesting. So we stopped funding Russian analysts and we missed it? Putin and his inner circle are adopting the Chinese model? He’s told the leading billionaires that any wealth that they have outside of Russia is lost? That two years ago he planned this and told them to bring it home? That he planned this invasion of Ukraine last summer, including the conquest of the east?

Conquest of Crimea almost complete. Given the level of corruption of the Russian regions of Ukraine, the leadership there knows that they’ll go to jail under a modernized Ukraine, so they’re going to work to support Russian conquest.

I guess that the deal is done? Ukraine will be split and armed, replacing Germany as the battlefield between east and west?

Fascinating times. Kind of ruins the joy of experiencing the revolution here.

Nukes are your only chance at sovereignty.

Everyone needs nukes. Thats the lesson.

Thats the lesson that NKorea and Pakistan suggested, Iran has adopted and Ukraine proved.

Welcome to the end of nuclear non-proliferation.