REGARDING PUTIN AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH I get it. I also get the significance of

REGARDING PUTIN AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

I get it. I also get the significance of pervasive corruption, the near absence of rule of law, the constructivist use of the absence of rule of law to steal companies and assets from their producers, the inability of the state to construct an advanced, productive economy, and the extensive poverty of the majority of the Russian population.

We would like it we could return to kings, and the unity of church (proletarians) burghers (merchants and craftsmen), and nobility(military).

We can do that.

But the way it must be done is to use violence to create rule of law. Not violence to create corruption.

THE SECRET TO OUR SUCCESS WAS THE LAW

Natural law governed a powerless working class, a fruitful population of burghers (merchants), a weak but wealthy and landed church, and powerful but small monarchies.

I am all for authority to impose rule of law. I am all for athority to defend the tribe, nation, and territory. But I am not all for authority to violate the natural law, nor to render western achievement back into the dark ages from whence Russia has barely climbed. Because like arabs they run on oil, not economies. Because economies require trust and the minimization of corruption.