This would be rational for members of the Visegrad Group of states, for slightly

This would be rational for members of the Visegrad Group of states, for slightly less demanding reasons than that of Russia as the ‘borderland’.
Meaning small countries late to enlightenment, late to industrialization, and late to economic power require scale to defend against those states that due to geography and limited trade, and distance from the british intellectual revolutions, are repeatedly at a disadvantage economic and strategically even if at a cultural advantage by observing the failures that emerge in those countries that evolve earlier and faster.
This is true of all tech. It’s better to be second or third. This is why fascism was better than anglo classical liberalism, French utopian liberalism, jewish communism – they saw what happened and wanted none of it.

What you want and what is good for you is different from the science that describes the spectrum of choices given our differing states of development and our positions as innovators vs adopters.

You’re vaforing the adopter position because it’s logical for you to do so – and you and yours still have SOME opportunity to prevent the ‘bads’ whether liberal(finance), authoritarian (state), or islamic (Faith)

See: https://t.co/uI5FujWKcv

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