What? Did they try to assassinate Olof Palme? Also why would only the dictators survive?
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died
by heterodoxxed on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:05AM
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Northern European/Scandinavian countries got a pass for things that got Latin Americans slaughtered. I'll give you as many guesses as you need to figure out why.
Hint: resources or hegemony
| Also why would only the dictators survive?
Because they ruthlessly crush their political enemies and live in a state of constant paranoia?
It seems utterly weird that only dictators wouldn't let themselves be murdered.
Re:Economist Bob Mundell has died
by heterodoxxed on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:08PM
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I just explained why and it's still weird to you? You should ask yourself why so many democratically elected left-wing leaders find themselves murdered or exiled by the CIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide...
Like I said below, when the largest empire the world has ever seen makes it a policy to destroy any socialist leader (even the mildest of social democrats) that threaten their resources or hegemony, only the iron-fisted strongmen survive. What people cite as failures are a result of the intense external pressure which favors strongmen because democratic socialist movements get massacred.